Can You Delete Pkg Files After Installing

  

  • The 'software rollback' exec command can be used to revert to a previous version of the installed software package set (i.e., an older packages.conf file) This functionality relies on the existence of one or more 'rollback provisioning files’ in flash:, along with all of the.pkg files listed in the rollback provisioning file(s).
  • Once installing the DLC/TUs I don't think i would CHOOSE to go back, so that shouldn't be a reason to retain for me. I'll just keep track of the URLs and delete the old pkgs to clear up some space.

Last updated on July 4th, 2019

The default apps that are installed in every newly created user, on a Windows 10, 8.1 & 8 based computer, are called provisioned (or 'pre-installed') apps and all the apps that are downloaded and installed from Windows Store are called installed apps.

When you remove an app (provisioned or installed), in fact you only un-register the app (you make the app unavailable) to the user (s).
That means that all the installation package files (provisioned or downloaded) that are used to install the app(s) still remain on your computer even after you uninstall the app.

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The installation packages are stored at this location on your computer:

  • C:Program FilesWindowsApps *

* Note: The 'WindowsApps' folder is hidden and has restrictions from accessing it. If you want to view its contents, read this article: How to get access to C:Program FilesWindowsApps folder in Windows 10 & Windows 8.

In this tutorial I 'll show you how to completely clean the provisioned packages and files, after you uninstall an app, in order to keep your computer clean from useless files.

How to Delete the Installation Files of the Default built-in Apps.

Yes it can have bad side effects, maybe not very often but for example you can have in package.json 'moduleX': '^1.0.0' and you used to have 'moduleX': '1.0.0' in package-lock.json. By deleting package-lock.json and running npm install you could be updating to version 1.0.999 of moduleX without knowing about it and maybe they have created a bug or done a backwards breaking change (not. The installer will download them when needed, so if you want to save or recover disk space, you can disable or move the package cache. Disable the package cache. Before you install, modify, or repair Visual Studio or other products with the new installer, you can start the installer with the -nocache switch to the installer. Better keep track of extra dependency packages installed while you are installing one. The following extra packages will be installed: libgssglue1 libnfsidmap2 libtirpc1 nfs-common rpcbind If you remove original package only, the dependency package may remain. So you have to manually remove each one using. Apt-get purge packagename.

Attention: Keep in mind, that if you delete the installation files of the default built in apps from your system, then the preinstalled default apps will be unavailable to every user on your system and the only method to reinstall the default apps (on the future), is to download and install them from Windows Store.

Part 1.To delete a particular provisioned package.
Part 2. To delete all provisioned packages.
Part 1. How to remove a particular provisioned package Windows 10,8.1, & 8 OS.

1. First uninstall the desired app from all existed users on your system, by following the instructions on this tutorial. How to remove – uninstall – particular Apps in Windows 10 / 8.

2. After uninstall, give the following command to get a list of all available provisioned on your system.

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Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -Online | Select PackageName

3. Then proceed to delete the desired provisioned package by giving this command *:

  • Remove-AppXProvisionedPackage -Online -PackageName <PackageName>

* Note: Replace the <PackageName> value, with the name of the provisioned package name, you want to uninstall, from the list you get, after executing the above command.

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Part 2.How to remove All Provisioned packages in Windows 10,8.1, & 8 OS.

1. First uninstall all default built-in (provisioned) apps from all users on your system by following the instructions on this tutorial: How to remove all the Default Built-in (Preinstalled–Provisioned) apps in Windows 10, 8.

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2. After uninstall, proceed to remove and delete all provisioned package files from your system, by giving the following command:

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  • Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online

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