clean up windows installer folder server 2003

whenever i do automatic updates, all the updates for outlook and excel do not install. Im wondering if the files are the same and the ‘duplicate’ ones can be deleted or if they are all necessary for office to run.Īlso wondering if the presence of these files (im guessing other computers dont have this massize amount of the miles) has anything to do with the fact that i cant seem to get alot of the updates for office 2003 to work. msp files are broken up into groups like this. msp files, each of 8,285 KB all modified at exactly the same time and date, and all having the title “Office 2003 Patch xl 8012 FullFile All I have customised the detailed view to include a ‘title’ section and have seen that although the files have different alpha-numeric names, there are bigclumps that have the exact same size and title. msp files then the remaining 50 or so of. This folder contains 31 folders taking up 230 MB, then another 1153. Hey there, i also have this problem and would love to know if its ok to delete the files as i am rapidly running out of space. It’s all those MSP files that are the space hog, they shouldn’t really be there without a good reason for it. Not sure here, is it possible to back them all up somewhere, so they can be retrieved if needed, then try deleting them and wait for the sky to fall in?īetter to wait to see if some of my more knowledgable Network peers here in TR can suggest something, before doing that. I wonder if this was the case, and such a network setup was done on this machine. ”When you install Office on users’ computers, Setup copies the installation files from the network to a local installation source on the client computer and completes the installation from there.” Here is what I mean, explains the sort of thing they are and how/why they are used: Unless an install failed, and they weren’t cleared up, so they are leftovers…. That would be the reason to keep them all, so that you can perform a client install to lots of machines. If this is not a server, they should not be left around. These are Microsoft Installer patch files.

Clean up windows installer folder server 2003