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TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner: the best companion of Steam users
For MS Windows users only
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The good old time:

When you installed a video game from a CD or a DVD, you installed some redistributable packages too: DirectX, Games For Windows Live Redist, VC Redist, Rapture3D, NVidia PhysX Redist, etc. They were installed from the CD/DVD, and those installers didn't stay on your hard drive.

Now, Steam, the problem:

The Steam application allows you to download games from the Internet and install them, but what about these redistributable packages ? You probably saw they are installed the first time you launch your game, OK, but what happens to these files when they go wasted ? The answer is very simple: Steam doesn't delete them. An example: install the first complete season of Sam & Max (6 episodes): every episode is about ~300MB. For each of them, you can count 100MB for the DirectX redistributable package. Yes, it is about a third of the game files size, and they are not removed by Steam. For 6 episodes, you could save 600MB. Imagine what you could save for 10 or 20 games.

The solution:

A little tool that is able to list every redistributable package stored on your Steam directories, and allows you to remove them. This is the goal of TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner. This is a very simple program: set the Steam SteamApps folder (this is a sub-folder of the Steam application), click "Search", you choose what file or folder you want to remove.

Download and run TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner

To download the latest version of TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner, click here.
You can also visit the download page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikione/files/tikione-steam-cleaner/. For each version, you will find the main program (tikione-steam-cleaner-x.y.z.zip), its sources (tikione-steam-cleaner-x.y.z-src.zip), and the changelog file (CHANGELOG.html).

As TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner is a Java-based program, ensure you have already installed Java (version 7 or better).
You can download the latest version of Java at http://www.java.com. Install Java 7 or better.

The program is packaged in a ZIP file. Unzip it and double-click to the tikione-steam-cleaner.bat file. The program starts.

Screenshot 1: the main frame

1. You can auto-detect the Steam directory, or use the ... button to locate it manually.
2. Start search.
3. The program may find many redistributable packages on your Steam sub-directories. Check the files and folders you want do delete.
   NB: if you uncheck an item, it will be automatically unchecked the next times; so, you can easily set a list of files and folders you'll never delete.
4. Ask the program to delete selected items.

Screenshot 2: you saved space!

That's all, you can now close the program ;)

Limitation

Steam will automatically download games's redistributable packages again in two cases:

• Steam has detected an update for the game.
• You have used the VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE... functionality on a game.

That's why TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner allows you to unchek items (and automatically remembers your choices) to save your Internet bandwidth.

Legal

TikiOne-Steam-Cleaner is free and OpenSource. You don't have to pay for it. You are free to modify this program and redistribute it according to the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1.

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