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Thursday, 16 February 2006
by Michel Roth
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ADSCleaner.exe is a GUI utility that deletes alternative data streams created by Citrix memory optimization code. The memory optimization feature is included in Citrix Presentation Server 4.0. Memory optimized applications consume double or triple the disk space because rebased versions of exe/dlls are stored in alternative NTFS data streams. This can easily be checked by using the streams.exe utility from http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/streams.html. The streams utility lists and deletes alternative data streams. However, it deletes all of them regardless of who created them: Citrix memory optimization code or some other application/service. Citrix customers sometimes want to disable memory optimization and then delete streams created by Presentation Server 4.0 to free disk space. ADSCleaner.exe has the following distinct features:
• Scans several drives at once
• Saves drive/folder list for next cleaning
• Deletes only Citrix-created streams
• Displays total freed disk space
• Summarizes streams that it failed to delete (this can happen if the memory optimization service was not disabled or streams are being used).
Download it here (registration required)
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