Steve Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 When you download a game from Steam, it usually always downloads some redistributable packages at the same time - the Games for Windows Live installer, DirectX etc. - the sort of stuff that runs the first time you play the game. This stuff sits on your hard drive taking up space needlessly and if you have a large games collection, it can occupy several GB of space.Here's a free app that searches for those packages and deletes them: -http://steamcleaner.tikione.fr/en/Before you delete the redistributable packages that come with a game, make sure you've launched the game at least once so that any packages that are required for the game to run will install. Even if you make a mistake and delete them before running the game at least once and the game then won't run, you can always re-download the packages using Steam's "verify integrity of game cache" option.In my case, it deleted nearly 5½ GB of unnecessary files from my hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frost Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 ooooooooooooh, this is good. Nice one Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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