Back when I was on XP, I found that Win Updates from Patch Tuesday added a new subfolder to the main Windows folder for each update, each quite large and containing essentially uninstall-info files. I got into the habit of deleting these shortly afterwards, since they cumulatively amounted to several gigs. Apparently no harm done (I didn’t touch what was obviously the “master” update folder), and even subsequent cumulative updates, which typically clear out older updates which have been included or become otherwise no longer necessary, still had no problem with their cleanup.
I haven’t been able to locate the equivalent files/folders in Win 7 (x64) – while I’ve got a much larger drive now, I’d still like to keep it as clean as possible. Anyone know if Win 7 updates don’t work the same way, or if they do, where can I locate those files? And if there, is it still OK to delete them?
Hopefully the above is understandable by someone here 