What is recommended when installing the latest engine version?

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Hi,

I’m just curious as to what is recommended once I’ve upgraded to the lasted version of the unreal engine. I want as much storage space on my SSD as possible, so if I’m going to be using the latest engine version and not the older ones, I’d assume I should remove them right? However, when I go to ‘uninstall a program’ on my computer it only shows one ‘unreal engine’ option. Does this mean I can just go to the 4.2 folder and delete it?

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Hey Skisma -

What you are seeing in the Uninstall Programs page has to do with what Windows associates with the engine. When you upgrade, the engine lets Windows know which is the most current version even though you have multiple versions. If you wanted a completely clean install for a new version, you would want to uninstall through windows which will remove the latest engine and all windows registry files then go to your Engine directory (default is C:\Program Files\Unreal Engine) and delete it. Restart your CPU, to ensure that all registry entries are purged from Windows and then install your new version from your account page.

Thank You

Eric Ketchum

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Thanks for the reply Eric!

I think I’ll just check how much stand alone storage is being taken up by my old version (4.2) and if it’s not that much I won’t worry about it. These version updates come out so often that it would be a pain to have to uninstall every time, wouldn’t you agree? Heck, 4.3 just came out and now there’s already a preview of 4.4. What’s your personal opinion here?

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Hey -

We do try to keep the Engine up to date and always improving. I would always suggest keeping what you can and CPU space is going to be different for everyone. One of the easiest cleanups that can be done with very little consequence once you know that your version of the engine is up and running is to go into Unreal Engine\Launcher\Backup and delete everything. This will give you a lot of room, these are backups of older full engine states which are saved after each install.

Hope that helps

Eric Ketchum

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Awesome. Thanks Eric! Hey, do you have a brother named Ash? Sorry, I had to :slight_smile: