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[lokoike]

I have been using Google Talk for a short while now, and have updated it several times. I went into the directory it is saved in, and what do you know, any time you update it, it keeps the old installers in the Google Talk folder! See picture:



It would be nice if CCleaner had a feature to clean out these old installers, since most people probably wouldn't want to go back to a previous version anyway. They are just about as useless as Windows Hotfix uninstallers, and after a while, the space starts to add up, as you can see.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other apps that do this, but a feature to clean out old app installers would be useful, and could free up a decent amount of space.

[ChrisGranger]

lokoike, on Feb 6 2006, 03:58 AM, said:

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other apps that do this, but a feature to clean out old app installers would be useful, and could free up a decent amount of space.

Pretty sure Java does this as well. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a lot of apps do it. Quite a waste of space.

[Flymenot]

I second the deletion of old gTalk updates.