Winsxs folder? Can or should I delete?

[netrate]

This folder is taking up a lot of room and I am wondering if it is safe to delete the contents of it - winsxs?

 

[Bree]

This folder is taking up a lot of room and I am wondering if it is safe to delete the contents of it - winsxs?

Absolutely not! That is your Windows Component Store and deleting it will break Windows.

You can however reduce its size by cleaning it up.

Windows Updates - Remove Outdated Updates in Windows 7

 

[Barman58]

Also the size shown for the Component Store is confusing, a lot of entries displayed are systemic links and report the size of the linked file, and are actually just a few bytes in reality

 

[SIW2]

This folder is taking up a lot of room and I am wondering if it is safe to delete the contents of it - winsxs?

There is a function in dism++ which does it. It uses the win10 cbs engine and seems to be somewhat similar to the component store cleanup ( or whatever it is called in win10 )

https://github.com/Chuyu-Team/Dism-...s/download/v10.1.1002.1/Dism++10.1.1002.1.zip

I have used it with no ill effects but similar to the win10 thing you wont then be able to uninstall any previous updates.





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