If you wish to unblock the file then you could do that manually by right-clicking on the downloaded file and then select Properties. Make sure to create a restore point just in case something goes wrong. I recommend you save that downloaded setup program somewhere before you delete it from your hard drive. When you have physical media, like an installation DVD, you can keep it somewhere and grab it when needed.
If you routinely delete set-up files before saving them somewhere else, when it comes time to set up that program again, you might be out of luck. The most common scenario for needing that download again is getting a new machine. The second most common scenario? The instructions for a complete reinstall are pretty simple: reinstall Windows and then reinstall all your applications.
It varies, of course, depending on how you organize your life. That could be a different machine, an external hard drive, your backup drive, cloud storage, or some other storage location dedicated to the task. When I download software to my machine I currently 1 :. I can also save space in OneDrive by making the folder, or just the file, cloud-only. In my case, since I have several computers, this practice allows me to avoid downloading the same thing multiple times.
Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. Download right-click, Save-As Duration: — 8. It might be different yet again by the time you read this. I have some OLD downloads that are 10 to 15 years old, some of those are bough softwares, from now out of business vendors, that I still use regularly.
Doing it twice, or more, a year is only for peoples that are doing researches, testing and other things that may corrupt the OS or worst or that demand a clean slate state. He just said that he, given his very special use of his computer, regularly did clean reinstalls.
Not twice a year, no, but periodically is indeed a good idea. You have great articles, and I read them often. Could you please make them less wordy. I have to read and read to get the answer. Roughly GB or data. Bumping Byte to Bits! This is crazy I thought. Anyway I knew it was windows updates failing. Looking over everything it has been failing every day since And only today I found an old Microsoft post from , claiming that they will try doing something with this… Three years ago now.
I hope sth will be done in Win 10 with that…. I really recommend checking it out. A little time has passed but I wondered if anyone else had this issue after using the WICleanup utility.
After deleting about 4. Many of the undates have date stamps going back to Does one simply ignore those or what? I had just done an update check so I know none of these were necessary prior to deleting the Installer files. Just group select then click in any of the selected files check box.
All will become checked. Delete away. Completely retarded. I also have the same problem. I found the solution as follows: goto wicleanup directory run wicleanup commandline version with -s silent option.
It will delete all the orphaned files without any further prompt. Thanks… not only did running from command line work… it took mere seconds. Thank you for the great tip! My folder was about 7GB and now is only 1. It is but the program is in English, just translate the page or click a download button on the right hand side of the webpage.
Working on a friends computer. She had THX a Million! Got a long list of files with total 1. Deleted them all. Are you sure your original folder size was 18GB??? You have to install a hell of a lot of software to get anywhere near that size Installer folder. Raymond and I have both just tested WICleanup again and it worked fine on my Win 7 64bit and his Win 7 32bit deleting what it said it would. This is most useful. This is a file folder I had not investigated till now and find it 2.
The WICleanup app could use a select all button -. Thanks for the post. My Installer folder was about 7GB. Thanks a lot Raymond! So the total size of the Installer folder is stil under a 1GB and I have been using this installation for quite some time now. Pim 1 year ago. The IT Guy in the building 1 year ago. Josh 2 years ago. David 3 years ago. Ed Barnes 2 years ago. Chris 3 years ago. Steve D 3 years ago. Buddy Sharp 3 years ago. Maros 3 years ago. Andrew 3 years ago.
Download uTorrent. Close the Google Play Store. Press your Android's Home button to do so. Open your Android's file manager app. This app varies depending on your Android, but it's usually named "Files" or "File Manager". You'll find it in the App Drawer. Select a storage location. Tap the storage location e.
On some file manager apps e. Tap the Download folder. It's in the "D" section of the list of folders. Tap your torrent file. It should be in the Download folder. Doing so opens the torrent file in uTorrent.
This will grant file access and location information to uTorrent. Your torrent's related files will begin downloading. Wait for the download to complete. Once the files finish downloading, you can proceed. Open the torrent file's folder. Go back to the Download folder in your Android's file manager app, then tap the torrent's file or folder to open it. Hello, I am new to tftp and linux. Skip to content.
Older post. Newer post. Many Thanks.
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