Can you move the windows installer folder using junctions?

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
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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 ?

Hi Mike,
Based on my knowledge, you can move windows installer directory using junctions. Please follow the steps below.
Download Junction from
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx.
CopyC:\windows\installer to X:\installer (X represents a new location).
Delete all the file in C:\windows \installer.
Close all Explorer windows.
Run>cmd>C:\junction C:\windows\installer X:\installer.
Thanks!
Andy Altmann
TechNet Community Support
I tried this on my Windows XP SP3: moved C:\WINDOWS\Installer folder to other partition (E:\Installer) following steps described here. After this I've launched an ordinary MSI file to install an application. During installation
Windows Installer deleted all contents of E:\Installer and re-created C:\WINDOWS\Installer as a folder (not a junction).
Hope it works correctly for Windows 7...

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