Deleting MSAS "MSI" files

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Rob

While "rooting" around my overburdened hd I found some folders in a "Winnt/Downloaded
Installations" directory with long Hex names enclosed in braces.
They contain "Installation Packages" (MSI) files for MSAS with modified dates dating from
January/05 to July/05.

Can I delete these?
 
Hmm - I've got a pretty good load too:

Directory of E:\WINDOWS\Downloaded
Installations\{0B17D774-B0EB-44BC-AC38-78A97D7D2507}
01/24/2005 09:53 PM 5,800,448 Microsoft AntiSpyware.msi

Directory of E:\WINDOWS\Downloaded
Installations\{0F5BF410-4D79-4DBE-AF54-C3271D47D4BD}
04/15/2005 04:01 PM 5,786,624 Microsoft AntiSpyware.msi

Directory of E:\WINDOWS\Downloaded
Installations\{78CB0701-6520-4FAE-99CE-20DE50BEF25C}
10/08/2005 06:40 PM 6,120,448 Microsoft AntiSpyware.msi

Directory of E:\WINDOWS\Downloaded
Installations\{94641651-692F-420D-BA6C-B2A90F01C400}
01/04/2005 09:24 PM 5,800,960 Microsoft AntiSpyware.msi

Directory of E:\WINDOWS\Downloaded
Installations\{D599FCC6-3D83-48AE-806A-ABABDC3735A9}
06/08/2005 10:11 PM 5,953,536 Microsoft AntiSpyware.msi

Directory of E:\WINDOWS\Downloaded
Installations\{DF2E8A41-7E98-427D-9582-7D2EAF44F827}
06/29/2005 04:02 PM 6,076,928 Microsoft AntiSpyware.msi

Total Files Listed:
6 File(s) 35,538,944 bytes


I think you are OK if you are careful to delete all but the newest one of
these. Alternately, to be safer, you could uninstall, delete them all, then
reinstall.

I feel your pain--this machine used to have a 6 gig drive split into two
partitions, and I ran for a long time with no system restore, and perhaps a
hundred megs free. Every once in a while it'd go down to zero for a day, or
I'd need to install something and have to remove such things as Adobe Reader
and Sun Java to make room....Got a bigger drive, and used BootitNG to
partition and move the data--worked flawlessly. I was impressed, since this
is an oddball setup--the two partitions are C and E and Windows lives on
E--there's another physical drive for D.
 
Thanks Bill.
Nothing elaborate here, just a little 4Gig drive (I get the cast-offs from work as I
pretty much use it for work).
I'm constantly on the prowl to free up space as I deal with some reasonably hefty files.
When I attempted to do a defrag it couldn't find enough room for a work area-that's what
led me to wander around in Winnt.


Makes me feel really old though-I remember when 4G was beyond my wildest dreams!
 
Deleting the files might cause problems downloading definition updates.

I had problems updating MS Office because my MSI files were missing. I had
to use the Windows Install Clean Up utility to remove all the files and then
reinstall the suite so I could use OfficeUpdate.

These files might currently be needed to determine what the current
definition fileset is installed on the system.

Alan
 
Makes me feel really old though-I remember when 4G was beyond my wildest
dreams!

My first very own HDD was 40 MB. I was so happy when I learned that 40 MB is
actually 44 million bytes. Four million extra bytes! Free!

Today I have 160 GB on 2 HDD and consider myself amply supplied with bytes.
In fact, I resent that I can't find any way to fill them up. What do you
people *do* with those new 300 GB drives, anyway?

My first PC had 1 MB RAM and used DOS 4.01. I was so happy when I learned I
could add 4 MB more (for only about $100, 'cause I got 2 for free). The 5 MB
total gave me enough to run Windows 3.x. With four MB RAM, Windows would
hardly load, let alone run.

Today I have 512 MB RAM and am deeply grieved that my greedy on-board AGP
wants 32 of them. Bummer. But I still have more than I can use, even with
Office and Photoshop.

Oi.

Walterius
Old, and well-bytten in Fort Lauderdale
 
Walterius wrote :
What do you people *do* with those new 300 GB drives, anyway?
Click to expand...

Hi

The majority fills them with p2p files, music and movies.

The media companys has changed attitude about prrizing and a small
amount is now legal files, but a majority are files from p2p networks.

I hope they changed attitude even more and realize what they must do
and forget about the past.
 
The majority fills them with p2p files, music and movies.

Actually, I did know that. I was just being crotchety. :)

Thanks, plun
 
I remember being thrilled that the first PC's we ordered (Leading Edge model
D's) came with a 20 meg drive when we had ordered 10 megs!

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I don't think so. Not having the current .MSI on hand will cause a problem
with a repair or update reinstall, or perhaps with uninstall. That's why I
recommended keeping the one with the current date, or, to be safe,
uninstalling, deleting all of them, then reinstalling--that would insure
that only the current one is left.

I don't believe these relate to definition updates in any way--just install,
uninstall, or repair installs.

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Well, home burning and p2p is a hobby for all usergrops ;)

Maybe I have met them but my p2p downloads are
only for some quality software I want to try out.

Or to fill my mp3 player which don´t handle DRM.

I hope that todays media industry can meet this
with new fresh sales methods.

They can fire every local director and cut all big organisation in
every local country and only keep headhunters for new great artists.

One download server in every continent and new prices for all media.

--
plun




After serious thinking Rob wrote :
 
My .MSI files for Office XP Students and Teachers were missing from the
system because of a failed install of some component of Office and
OfficeUpdate couldn't search my system to find out what updates my system
needed since it had no idea what was installed, nor where they were
installed. I had to use the Windows Install Clean UP utility to remove all
the Windows Installer files associated to Office and then reinstall Office
for the site to work properly.

Alan
 
Yes-that's a good example of what can happen--and just the right solution,
too. We've needed that utility many times in the course of this
beta--primarily because this install seems to be unusually sensitive to
finding previous failed installs of other products.

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Well, my first computer, a TRS-80, in 1978, came with 4K (yes...K) of
memory, which I upgraded to 16K for about $200. There WAS NO hard drive, or
even a disk drive!, and 'programs' were on cassette tapes, played on a
standard cassette player. Oh, yes...a black and yellow 12 inch monitor
rounded out the 'system'.
 
Apple II (yes, the one without lower case letters) I did buy a floppy disc
drive pretty quickly, but initially it loaded from casettes.

Killer app: Visicalc.

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