Recent content by Gary Fuhrman

OK, now we're getting somewhere! The duplicate msp files apparently result from a failed Adobe Acrobat update or installation. I have Adobe Acrobat Pro by subscription. Event log shows "Product: Adobe Acrobat -- Error 1321.The Installer has insufficient privileges to modify the file C:\Program...

25 days later, no problems using the computer, but i see my C: drive filling up again. Screenshot is of WinDirStat which shows 54 msp files all with the same date, time and size: each 980.3 MB(!). This can't be normal (or useful). Since my previous deletions have caused no operational problems...

Thank you, I ran Patch Cleaner and it moved some orphaned files, but have not found a way to turn System Restore off. One source suggests PC Cleaner can do that but i have not downloaded that. Is it necessary? or worthwhile? or should i just leave well enough alone?

OK, Thanks.

I got impatient after Disk Cleanup did nothing in the Installer folder, so i just deleted a couple hundred of the biggest files in it (using File Explorer via WinDirStat). Now my C drive has 240 GB free and we'll see if i messed up anything ...

Copying the Installer folder to external drive is taking quite a long time. After that i will run Disk Cleanup as administrator, see what happens and get back to you. Thanks for the help so far.

OK, running WinDirStat shows the culprit to be the Installer folder, hundreds of .msp files each almost a GB! Can i just delete them all?

Shortly after i moved ALL my music and video files and many documents off my 466 GB SSD drive free up over 100 GB of space, it's been rapidly filling up without my adding any new files to it. I followed all the advice i could get from Microsoft without any result, and now only 40 GB left free. I...