help cleaning out the software update directories

[blade12]

Ive noticed that the software updater keeps around old install files for drivers and other software that it has already updated. Is there quick a way of cleaning all these out? The filenames are not exactly intuitive, and it seems very tedious to search through the driver directories manually.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[jdhurst]

No quick way I know of. I rename the extraction folder by adding an intuitave name in front of the given filename. I have been doing that all along, so that I delete older folders of the same purpose. I also put all the updates in a folder WINXPP under Drivers and I put all the initial drivers in Preload under Drivers. So when I look at Drivers, it has two folders and when I look at WINXPP, it has only the current drivers and applications. Tedious at times, but the rest of the time, I know exactly what I have.
... JD Hurst

[gunston]

delete it yourself

[pipspeak]

All I can think of is to go by file dates. Delete the really old ones.

[storage_man]

You could also download this little program. I works pretty good

http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/

Storage_man