C:\MSOCache, WTF ? | Ohad Eder-Pressman

I like a clean and tidy C:\, I bet you do too.

When you install Microsoft-Office it drops a directory called MSOCache on the root of your drive. Like you’ve guessed this is cache for the Microsoft-office-installation so that you don’t need to tell it where your installation is located.

If MS Coders would have bothered to hide it somewhere under application-data or something like that I wouldn’t even have noticed, but such a blunt disregard of my craze for tidiness deserves a response.

Apparently I’m far from being the first to notice, this little MS tool allows you to get rid of the bastard.

4 Comments

Max Kielcz 2006-05-06

wow, that was really useful, thanks. I tried what every other site said and did a "disc cleanup"...but I am very OCD about my hard drive being neat. thanks again.

Jerome 2006-12-03

Thanks for the tip, I'm pretty compulsive about keeping my root directories clean too! Luckily your site came up pretty high on my Google search (though sadly not right at the top where it deserves to be!) Hence problem solved.

Anonymous 2007-04-14

Marko says: Well, thanks a lot dude. My computer is running perfectly also because of your programm tip. It really helped me.

Ahil Mohan 2008-06-15

Excellent! I dont know why microsoft didnt display this tool effectively on their site page for Removing the MSO Folder. Big ups! =D

Max Kielcz 2006-05-06

wow, that was really useful, thanks. I tried what every other site said and did a "disc cleanup"...but I am very OCD about my hard drive being neat. thanks again.
Jerome 2006-12-03

Thanks for the tip, I'm pretty compulsive about keeping my root directories clean too! Luckily your site came up pretty high on my Google search (though sadly not right at the top where it deserves to be!) Hence problem solved.
Anonymous 2007-04-14

Marko says: Well, thanks a lot dude. My computer is running perfectly also because of your programm tip. It really helped me.
Ahil Mohan 2008-06-15

Excellent! I dont know why microsoft didnt display this tool effectively on their site page for Removing the MSO Folder. Big ups! =D