Advice regarding Adobe Reader and disk usage

I've seen it happen on a few occasions on customers computers (in the last say 3 years), that surprisingly large amounts of disk space is in use thanks to Adobe Reader's auto-update system, because apparently when it updates itself, it leaves the old msi install package in C:\Windows\Installer, and recent-ish versions are over 1GB in size. I saved about 20GB of space on a customer's computer very recently because of this (and on a 128GB SSD for example, that makes quite a bit of difference!). Uninstalling Adobe Reader does not clean up those files. I don't know of a quicker way to sort this out, so I go into that folder, sort by size, and chances are that all the largest files are related to Adobe Reader. I right-click on each one in turn, properties, digital signature: If it's Adobe (and assuming of course that no other adobe products are installed), delete it. Hopefully the problem is not multiplied based on the number of Adobe products installed, but knowing Adobe, it... Read more