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So, there's a major beef that I have with windows and their stupid updates. I know they're helpful and all, but every time I restart my computer after installing an update there's 5 more waiting....
Anyway, I was installing battlefield 3 last night, and it stopped at 60% for me to insert disc 2 (this was while I was sleeping, it takes a while to istall). So windows decided to install it's updates at 3 A.M. and restart my computer. When I wake up this morning, I tried to put in disc 2 to complete the install, and it said please insert disc 1. I had to start the installation all over again.
Naturally at this point I'm not too happy, and to make matters worse I now have 7 GB less of free space on my SSD. For a 128 GB SSD, that's a lot of space. Somehow the game left the installed files on my computer, and I can't find them.
I deleted the files in the programs folder and the files in the registry, and still the 7 GB remains. I can't uninstall it in Revo Uninstaller because it doesn't show up. This is the only thing I installed yesterday, and unless the windows updates threw 7 GB of crap on my computer, I need to know what files to delete to undo this.
nathpilland
Posted 2012-08-15T15:39:44.347
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Have you tried listing all files on the drive by modified/creation date, or using a tool like WinDirStat to see what large folders are floating around?
– soandos – 2012-08-15T15:43:53.903I have not. That sounds like a good idea, is WinDirStat a cleanup tool? I can't tell from the blog site.. – nathpilland – 2012-08-15T16:13:08.420
It just finds files – soandos – 2012-08-15T16:23:52.763
I used WinDirStat, it worked perfectly. I found the file hidden in the temp folder, all 7 GB. – nathpilland – 2012-08-16T17:38:06.160