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Razer installer files took up 456 GB (!!!) in my C:/Windows/SystemTemp folder


yanot94

What the title of the thread says. I’m genuinely infuriated. These lose files take up more than half of my M2 SSD.

And the worst part is - they’re all locked and hidden with Window’s security feature, so I can’t even delete them. Once I select them - Widows says that they are all 0kb and empty. But WizTree shows how bad things actually are.

 

They’re all exactly the same in size and contents:
 

 

I’ve uninstalled all Razer utilities from my PC, but the folders, obviously, remained.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to remove all that trash?

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yanot94
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  • April 1, 2025

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yanot94
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  • April 1, 2025

Ok. Once I’ve opened regedit and manually deleted everything that contained ‘razer’ in it (there was quite a pile) - it finally allowed me to delete all that trash.


FiszPL
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Wow that's a big one.

You can always run CMD/powershell as administrator and delete it from CMD or powershell if there is a problem doing it from explorer.


yanot94
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FiszPL wrote:

Wow that's a big one.

You can always run CMD/powershell as administrator and delete it from CMD or powershell if there is a problem doing it from explorer.

Would you, please, explain to me how do you do that? I wasn’t able to find clear instructions on how to delete folders via CMD. Literally spent the whole day trying to find a way to remove those locked and unused update files.

Also - a friend of mine had 290GB of those as well. There is something seriously wrong with Razer’s software.


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  • June 21, 2025

I encountered the same problem as you. I'm planning to give your method a try as well. May I ask if this situation has occurred again after you installed Razer software after doing this


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I encountered the same problem as you. I'm planning to give your method a try as well. May I ask if this situation has occurred again after you installed Razer software after doing this

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