Man of Honour
Posting this here too as it's mostly gaming related and will save a whole bunch of space.
Was recommended Revo Uninstaller Free on reddit this week after a post of mine hit the front page about games that leave behind GBs of files after you uninstall them, often in other locations that are not the game's install folder itself. Doesn't matter if it's Steam, Uplay, XBOX or whatever other store front, they all do it.
The idea of Revo Portable is to just run it before you uninstall any game or software, and proceed to clickthrough to uninstall via Revo. It will trigger the game or app's uninstaller, even if it's through Steam, and monitor what files it leaves behind. You then get a rundown of leftovers, including registry entries etc.
Here is me uninstalling a recent game I played:
So it even recognises that I had some GFE game recordings whilst playing that I played in media player so it will delete those orphan link files as the recordings have since been deleted anyway, pretty neat.
The other day I found that Uncharted Collection on Steam left behind 5.4GB of files which turned out to be the shader compilation data. I discovered this before learning of Revo, so as usual I did a Space Sniffer check and found several GB sitting in the ProgramData folder which is a hidden system folder under a Naughty Dog folder
Off the back of that, others downloaded Space Sniffer and loads of people replied saying how they found between 20Gb and 100GB+ of remnant files left over from old game uninstalls....
So in combination, Space SNiffer and Revo uninstaller, both portable versions will clear up loads of space that apps and game consume even after uninstall, and then keep on top of it by using Revo to uninstall all games from there onwards.
Space Sniffer:https://www.fosshub.com/SpaceSniffer.html
Revo Uninstaller:https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-free/
Was recommended Revo Uninstaller Free on reddit this week after a post of mine hit the front page about games that leave behind GBs of files after you uninstall them, often in other locations that are not the game's install folder itself. Doesn't matter if it's Steam, Uplay, XBOX or whatever other store front, they all do it.
The idea of Revo Portable is to just run it before you uninstall any game or software, and proceed to clickthrough to uninstall via Revo. It will trigger the game or app's uninstaller, even if it's through Steam, and monitor what files it leaves behind. You then get a rundown of leftovers, including registry entries etc.
Here is me uninstalling a recent game I played:
So it even recognises that I had some GFE game recordings whilst playing that I played in media player so it will delete those orphan link files as the recordings have since been deleted anyway, pretty neat.
The other day I found that Uncharted Collection on Steam left behind 5.4GB of files which turned out to be the shader compilation data. I discovered this before learning of Revo, so as usual I did a Space Sniffer check and found several GB sitting in the ProgramData folder which is a hidden system folder under a Naughty Dog folder
Off the back of that, others downloaded Space Sniffer and loads of people replied saying how they found between 20Gb and 100GB+ of remnant files left over from old game uninstalls....
So in combination, Space SNiffer and Revo uninstaller, both portable versions will clear up loads of space that apps and game consume even after uninstall, and then keep on top of it by using Revo to uninstall all games from there onwards.
Space Sniffer:https://www.fosshub.com/SpaceSniffer.html
Revo Uninstaller:https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-free/
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