C:/Windows/Installer

[Belaslav]

Based on the above posts you have a 55 GBs SSD for your disk C, and a terabyte HDD for another disk, maybe D.

For a Home Computer 55 Gigs for disk C and system partition should be sufficient. That leads me to question: What exactly are you doing on your SSD?

[Blaaaaaaaah]

That's exactly what I want to know.. most of my big programs are installed on my D drive, all my files are on my D drive.... only smaller programs I install on the C drive...

Which was why I used treesize to find out what's taking up so much space and it's the Installer folder.

[Belaslav]

I hate to disappoint but ALL program uninstall information is stored in that particular place. No matter where some particular program is installed.

EDIT: Actually I'm curious now. I have ~5GBs with of files in that particular folder on my system, and you have ~10GBs. Exactly how many programs do you have installed?

[Blaaaaaaaah]

I've got the adobe master collection installed on my computer and that's a pretty big set of files. LoL and lots of Steam games. I also have a tendency to install and uninstall a lot of small programs. Maybe it's a built up of that.

[Vasu]

Sounds like a Windows 8/8.1 problem. I have no such folder on my Windows 7 machine.

[Belaslav]

Sounds like a Windows 8/8.1 problem. I have no such folder on my Windows 7 machine.

This folder is not directly visible, you have to manually specify the path in the address bar in order to see it. But it's there, and I believe it's been that way ever since Win95.

Though Windows 2K and NT use C:\WINNT\Installer path instead.

[Blaaaaaaaah]

Yeah I'm on windows 7

[Belaslav]

I've got the adobe master collection installed on my computer...

Wait, the ENTIRE thing? Are you sure you need all that? Because unless you are a professional designer who does design for a living, I doubt you use even half of the whole suite.

Not to mention that the license for 1 machine costs around $1k USD, and that seems like a frivolous spend of money. Even if YOU ARE a designer.

[Blaaaaaaaah]

No not the entire collection... maybe 3-4 programs? But even if I uninstall it, doesn't it keep the MSI files anyway? =/

But I did get the whole set legally for $98 only =P /gloat

[Belaslav]

$98? Whut.

... is that place still open?

On-topic: Technically if you uninstall the suite, the good programs should ALWAYS clean up after themselves. Question as to which programs are 'good' is of course open to debate.