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YatesGriffin
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Jan 18, 2026

How to Safely Delete 30GB of .MSP Files in Windows 10

A scan with WinDirStat revealed that approximately 30GB of .MSP files have accumulated on the system drive. These files are known to be related to software updates but occupy an unusually large amount of space. Attempting to use the Patchcleaner tool identified only 250MB of "orphaned files," while the remaining 29GB could not be cleaned due to filter limitations. Most of the file names appear in an unrecognizable encoding (as shown in the screenshot), making it impossible to determine their associated programs. It is necessary to safely remove these files to free up disk space while ensuring that existing software functionality remains unaffected.

 

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