As someone who uses a small 30gb SSD for my OS, storage is tight. (And let me just get this out of the way- I'm getting a new SSD within the 4-5 months). All games (including Microsoft Flight) are installed on secondary hard disk drives. I've installed well over 40 games over the past few years and I only experience these kind of issues with Microsoft games specifically; they seem to always install extra things to the root hard drive.

 

After the latest patch, I noticed that my SSD lost about 500mb of space. After some further investigation, I noticed most of the new files were located in the eHome folder (located in C:/ProgramData/Microsoft). After a little investigating it turns out this is specifically something that deals with infrared devices (trackIR).

 

I have no plans to purchase TrackIR for the foreseeable future, so I would really like to get this extra 500mb of crap off my hard drive. Can I simply delete the new files without causing any harm to the game?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

Edit- Just wanted to say that perhaps I'm totally off base with this (definitely assuming a decent bit of information from google). If I'm way off base please let me know. But there's no question that I have lost at minimum 500mb of space of the root drive; nothing has been installed/updated in the past week with the exception of the MS Flight update.

Open your GfWL and check your Options.

It will install default on c:

But you can change the harddrive and/or the folder where the updates are installed.

That's funny, I gained almost 8 GB after the latest patch. But different HD's/SSD's are different. But I don't think deleting the files is a good idea as it may have an effect on the game as well. Just my opinion.

Could you provide a list of the files in that directory?

 

I installed the update as soon as it was available and my eHome folder is empty:

 

 

 

 

 

That Logs folder is empty as well.

 

Best regards.

Luis

If you were to back the files up onto one of the other non-ssd drives, and then delete, you should theoretically be able to copy them back to their location on the C drive if the Flight installation insists on them being there.

 

disclaimer: I shall not be held responsible for any advice I may give that is directly or indirectly responsible for any computer crashes.

 

Okay, that last bit was just a joke.

Well, Google is your friend...

 

[cite=url="http://answers.micro...7-ca30358ea561" name="Microsoft Answers" date="12/09/2009"']

 

Welcome to Microsoft Answers!

 

1) Disable automatic driver downloads:

- Start menu -> Right click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings (top left) -> Hardware -> Windows Update Drivers Settings -> Select "Never check for drivers when I connect a device." -> OK -> Apply -> OK

 

2) Turn off SSDP Discovery:

- Start menu -> Type in "services.msc" without quotes and press Enter -> Scroll to "SSDP Discovery" -> Right click and select Properties -> Change Startup Type to "Disabled" -> Apply -> OK

 

3) Uninstall ENE CIR Receiver:

- Start menu -> Right click Computer -> Manage -> Device Manager -> Click the + beside Human Interface Devices -> Right click "ENE CIR Receiver" and select Uninstall -> MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE UNINSTALL SOFTWARE BOX ON THE PROMPT (this will take the Microsoft eHome Infrared Trasceiver with it) -> OK -> Let the uninstall take place -> Reboot the computer

 

4) Preventing installation of IR device drivers:

- Upon reboot you will receive a prompt asking you if you want to install the device drivers -> SELECT "NEVER FOR THIS DEVICE"

 

5) Turn ON SSDP Discovery:

- Follow directions from earlier and select "Manual" from the drop down menu (Startup Type) -> Apply -> OK

 

Hope this helps!

 

Regards,

Afzal-Microsoft Support Engineer.[/cite]

 

 

 

So, this is not TrackIR support, but the normal Windows 7 Infrared receiver.

 

Best regards.

Luis

Open your GfWL and check your Options.

It will install default on c:

But you can change the harddrive and/or the folder where the updates are installed.

 

Yep, did that a while ago. Thanks anyway though :)

Gonna be doing a reinstall sometime soon so that's a good reminder :P

 

 

Well, Google is your friend...

 

[cite=url="http://answers.micro...7-ca30358ea561" name="Microsoft Answers" date="12/09/2009"']

 

Welcome to Microsoft Answers!

 

1) Disable automatic driver downloads:

- Start menu -> Right click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings (top left) -> Hardware -> Windows Update Drivers Settings -> Select "Never check for drivers when I connect a device." -> OK -> Apply -> OK

 

2) Turn off SSDP Discovery:

- Start menu -> Type in "services.msc" without quotes and press Enter -> Scroll to "SSDP Discovery" -> Right click and select Properties -> Change Startup Type to "Disabled" -> Apply -> OK

 

3) Uninstall ENE CIR Receiver:

- Start menu -> Right click Computer -> Manage -> Device Manager -> Click the + beside Human Interface Devices -> Right click "ENE CIR Receiver" and select Uninstall -> MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE UNINSTALL SOFTWARE BOX ON THE PROMPT (this will take the Microsoft eHome Infrared Trasceiver with it) -> OK -> Let the uninstall take place -> Reboot the computer

 

4) Preventing installation of IR device drivers:

- Upon reboot you will receive a prompt asking you if you want to install the device drivers -> SELECT "NEVER FOR THIS DEVICE"

 

5) Turn ON SSDP Discovery:

- Follow directions from earlier and select "Manual" from the drop down menu (Startup Type) -> Apply -> OK

 

Hope this helps!

 

Regards,

Afzal-Microsoft Support Engineer.[/cite]

 

 

 

So, this is not TrackIR support, but the normal Windows 7 Infrared receiver.

 

Best regards.

Luis

 

Very strange....I wish I knew how this installed itself (automatic updates/drivers are not enabled). Maybe Windows just decided to move/recreate some files on it's own; that just happened to coincide around the hour I installed the flight patch.

 

Oh well...thanks for the help everyone. Very informative post.

Alright I think I've found the culprit.

 

In the Games for Windows Marketplace settings, everything is set to install/download on the secondary drive (it's been set that way since I first installed it).

 

Yet for some reason I see the Microsoft Flight patch install files stored in my user folder\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XLive\Updates\4d530d2

 

Hovering over the files in the folder reveals subject: Microsoft Flight

 

Perhaps patches are handeled differently than doing a direct download from Games for Windows Marketplace?

 

Regardless everything is good now. Thanks to everyone for helping me narrow that down :D