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Clean up old update executables on disk after install #46816

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While doing some spring cleaning I discovered through WinDirStat that PowerToys leaves behind executables used to patch new updates. I would like to propose an enhancement whereby the update executable is deleted after successfully updating to avoid filling up users' disk drives.

The path seems to be ...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\Updates

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After updating PowerToys to a new version

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Windows Explorer screenshot of 10gb of PowerToys update executables

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