PatchCleaner 1.4.2.0

Have you found that your drives are getting clogged up for seemingly no reason? You've been actively installing things away from your system drive but it still mysteriously only has a gigabyte left? Turns out, every time you install programs, windows automatically creates an MSI file inside the Windows folder. These stay even if you uninstall the program it's attached to and clog up space. Some have reported that they can take up to 15 GB of space.

This is when you use the PatchCleaner to identify and remove them from the system drive. Note that remove doesn't necessarily mean delete. You can move them to another drive and open up space instead. In fact, it's highly recommended, as if the system misidentifies orphan files and you delete them, it could cause serious problems. At worst, it can potentially brick your computer. At that point, all you can do is restore to an earlier restore point.

PatchCleaner doesn't come built-in with many options, as it's built for one thing and it does that one thing very well. The only extra thing is that the latest version of the program allows you to run it through the Windows command line. You can use /d to delete any located orphaned files, and /m [Filepath] to move them instead.

This is a very useful program for dealing with unnecessary clutter, which is something everybody has to deal with. Using this along with something like CCleaner will dramatically increase the lifespan of your computer. Give PathCleaner a shot!