Hi--
I know there have been many prior threads on the WinSXS folder. On my 32-bit Win7 machine, I just completed running Disk Cleanup in Administrative mode after installing KB2852386 (the update for Disk Cleanup). This is what my folder currently looks like running WinDirStat just now:
Is it possible to remove some of these files and regain disk space or is this 6GB WinSxs folder as small as it can get?
Thanks for any guidance.
Only 6 GB? Mine is somewhat larger than that.
But actually things are not as they appear. The NTFS file system has long had the capability for a single file to appear in more than one folder. That is the situation here. While the folder appears to contain 6 GB of files a large number of these are actually stored elsewhere and counted twice. Even if you could delete all of the files in WinSXS you would not save 6 GB.
Mine is 15GB. With 6GB you are well served - but it will grow. Each time you download and install a program, you will get entries (.dlls) in winsxs. But when you uninstall that program, the entries will not go away.
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