I have been reading blogs and articles for quite some time now relating to the controversy between what many users see as wasted disk space for windows installer cache and Microsoft techies who claim that cleaning this folder can cause irreparable system damage.
my question has anyone ever simply tried moving this folder to another drive and than linking it to the windows folder using a junction?? I have never tested this myself but in theory it should work as you could keep the folder on an external storage device which would be accessed only when installing or uninstalling a program. from experience the os doesn't generally know the difference between the actual folder and a junction point so the required directory structure for all intents and purposes would technically be there.
if anyone has ever done this successfully please let me know what your results were ?