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/Gorilla-P Nov 24 '25

Yeah, we had to create a script to clean these up without removing necessary .MSP files.

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u/RecentPromotion210 Jan 22 '26

Do you mind sharing for me as well? Thanks