Moving the winsxs folder

On my 7 VM the winsxs folder is taking up ~15 gb of space which is way too much for a 40 gb drive. Is there a way to shrink it? I have less than 10 gb free, the windows folder is taking up 85% of that and winsxs is taking up 52% of that according to WinDirStat. I don't have many programs installed...

This WINSXS folder is taking up over half of the 30 GB space on my computer. I'm not sure it's something I want to touch, but I don't think this is right. My Free Disk space decreases each day, even if I do no activity on my computer. I do Disk Cleanup, Disk Defragmenter and Clear Internet...

hey so iv been trying to free up some space on my lap top. one thing i cant work out is the winsxs folder, iv tryed disk clean tool dont worrie, the folder is almost 14gb witch is very larg. iv look all over the web to try solve it but with no luck, do any of you know how i could try fix thisn ?

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...

can it be deleted without damage to the system , i ask this as it has took up 11gb of space in my hard drive , thanks