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Lately whenever someone complains their C partition is full, it's always unmistakably Adobe's fault. Their shitty way of updating piles up crap in the Windows Installer folder. Uninstalling Adobe and cleaning up its garbage, no joke, frees up anywhere from 20 to 40 gigabytes of storage. Insane.
What software are we talking about here? There is no way Acrobat takes up that much space. Photoshop might though.
Whatever the reader is called now. It's a known "feature". They use Windows Installer patch system to update the application, but for some reason if it fails to update, it just re-downloads the patch without removing the failed ones. Or at least that's my understanding. Allegedly (according to Adobe at least) it's a rare bug, but I've had over a dozen machines from end users where this caused C partition to run full and slow down/freeze/crash the system. And I'm being serious when I say some machines regained over 30GB of space after uninstalling the reader.
Whoa.