The size of the WinSXS folder and potentially others? Seems the operating system is poorly optimised. Thanks for the comments! My file was at a whopping That will be at least somewhat helpful — thanks! Mustafa: i believe you are confused…defrag merely reorganizes files, not delete…. Of course this does not yet exist in Windows 7 or Windows R2.
A service pack has yet to be released for those operating systems! Windows SxS is used for more than just full-on service packs. As different libraries are installed or upgraded the SxS folder serves as an assembly cache for previous versions of the libraries.
Open My Computer, 2. Click on it. Just Tick It Out and click Ok. Its All Done. I really believe this step involving the size of this folder in windows vista to be a step backwards for Microsoft. Well it can be done but what a waste of time and disk space. Thanks so lottttt! Got back 2. Went from My C drive doees not have a clan up button…and compcln is also not found, did any one done this onb windows R2?
The disk cleanup has resized the winsxs folder, on my windows 7 system, from 12 gb files, folders to 7. Thank you!!! If there were good programers in this world, winsxs folder would be unneeded. But on this world is a lot of bad programers. This is the real reason for winsxs folder.
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Well if you Norton, it will have a disk cleanup. Have you ever had to uninstall this pathetic sumbitch? Its tentacles reach to the far corners of your registry, and are completely immune to its ordinary uninstall process.
Of course, Symantec provides a special "Norton Removal Tool", and has for years. Unfortunately, it is buried deeply within their website, far from prying eyes. My winsxs file was eatting 19G of space, after using the Compcln. Thanks for the comments and thanks for Andrew! I have games that take up way more space than that. What the bloody arse are you guys doing with your computer to allow this folder to accumulate GB! This is possibly one of the stupidest and least helpful comments on the subject I have ever read.
So flame on you sir. This subject wont be going away and it doesnt look like its going to get better. Happy days, here's hoping I dont have to raze it to the ground. And as for "buy a bigger drive". That's sadly not an option with this package. Buy a bigger drive. All people are asking for is that the OS doesn't keep eating space.
If there was a leak in your boat, your solution is buy a bigger boat instead of fixing the leak. I have a vista bit. In the past three years, my winsxs grows bigger and bigger. I started to delete more and more programs until only Office is left, and other basic drivers.
My hard drive is 69GB. I could not believe my winsxs is 60GB now. I only have MB left on C drive. It is too late for me to get SP1 or SP2. If SP1 or SP2 can delete some old file, why can't Microsoft issues some tool for user to handle winsxs manually.
My other option is to clone the C drive to a bigger hard drive. Anyone knows how to do that? Please help. How could Microsoft let winsxs grow like that? Itself is a cancer!!! Thanks so much for all your helpful comments!
I got alarmed today when I realized my gb drive now only had 25gb free. Found a folder size analyzer and discovered the winsxs cancer. I'll take it! I used the compcln. Not a lot but I was almost at the point that I'd have to buy a new computer or new HD, or a full reinstall or I have just sent this complaint to a Windows Community site.
At least it let's off some steam but I suppose I'll have to go for a re-install as Microsoft are criminally unhelpful. Advice to delete a few temp files, etc. Or, as an alternative, reinstall the software. They are totally ignoring their responsibility to their customers. Talk about take the money and run! Are there any plans to solve this problem?
Perhaps it's an arm-twisting way of encouraging us to buy subsequent editions of operating software It eventually gets so bad, and we get so fed up trying for a solution that we just give up and and go along with it Some of the postings state that Windows 7 suffers from the same problem; if this is true the engineers designing this software are either idiots or crooks - take your pick.
Andrew Berry Development. It's too bad that there isn't a nice way to do this from a GUI. Hopefully SP2 will include one. Related Links:. I only have MB of free space and can't even install the lastest MS updates. Program Files is under 3GB. I can't even begin to believe that we are at a stage where an OS needs to be over 14GB! Messing with WINSxs is pretty much crippling your application compatibility. Every time that I heard about new things on windonws, make me wanna change to my linux My WinSxs folder is over 15 GB.
Thank you for allowing anonymous posting! Submitted by Hasta La Vista Baby!
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