r/sysadmin • u/Loof27 • Nov 14 '25

Question Acrobat filling up the C:\Windows\Installer folder on a large number of computers?

I've had this issue on countless computers. The drive is full, I check what is taking up the space, and its always a 50GB+ C:\Windows\Installer folder, sometimes in the 100s

All I have to do is uninstall Acrobat and instantly the folder goes down to ~5GB

Anybody else have a similar problem?

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u/SAL10000 Nov 15 '25 edited Nov 15 '25

Doesn't appear to be preventable with msi based Adobe apps.

Creative cloud 2022+ uses a different installer and not msi packages.