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Need a straight answer for installer folder mayhem
Hello,
My coworker gave me her Dell Inspirion 1464 laptop running 7 Home Premium, version 6.1.7600 Build 7600.
She complains about running out of space, and after a quick disk inventory it appear as though 60% of the hard drive is being eaten by these cancerous "winsxs" and ".dll" files, which I'm told are installer files.
I'm also told there is a retired Installer Clean Up utility that MAY ruin things if you decide to use it. After an hour on the internet, the best advice I found is
1) risk the utility and hope for the best
2) manually delete the files (terrible advice I gather)
3) re-install windows 7
Seriously? I'm a unix guy – I need some help. But I don't want to ruin someone else's file structure. Isn't there software we can buy for this? Thanks–