How to get rid of old Thinkvantage installers?

[Nebzar]

I was wondering if there is a way, other than by hand looking at them one by one, to trash installers of "old" Thinkvantage upgrades, which get accumulated on disk and with time take up a lot of space.

I looked into both System Update and Software Installer, and in the related documentation, but I didn't find any reference to a functionality of "disk cleanup" pertaining to Thinkvantage software.

Any hint?

Regards
Neb

[FredFromNYC]

I would like to know that, too. Is it harmless to delete packages manually that were downloaded and installed with ThinkVantage System Update?

[christopher_wolf]

Yes there is. Get rid of all of the installer files with th numerical indices for folder names, but leave the two text files in the DRIVERS directory alone; they contain info about the current package state/image of the Thinkpad and Software Installer uses that information to determine what newer packages to get.

[Nebzar]

Tnx Chris

I imagine that I can do the same thing also in the folder:

C:\Program Files\Lenovo\System Update\session

deleting only folders which have numerical indices and leaving intact all the others, right?

[christopher_wolf]

Very similar, SU/2 uses XML files more than SI did for the package state of the Thinkpad. Usually they come in folders along with a textual description of the software as well, all downloaded from the IBM/Lenovo servers. The ones that appear in all caps or have installers in them are safe to delete as are the ones with just *.XML and *.txt files. The files that should be left alone are the temp and system folders in there, the *.ser file under the "Sessions" directory, and the *.xml file under the "Sessions" directory.

[Optigrab]

Started a new thread in General HARDWARE/SOFTWARE questions, based in on information learned in this old one.