3 Feb 2010 . I came across an issue today with a computer that I hadn't been familiar with up until this point. I know a common complaint from Microsoft .

3 Jun 2009 . How to Delete winsxs Folder in Vista, Operating Systems, Computer end-user technical support troubleshooting for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

3 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 26 Jan 2004I was just clearing out some old junk folders left from uninstalled programs. I found a folder titled winsxs. Can you all tell me what this .

I promised some time ago that I will post 100 tips and tricks about Windows 7. Biggest problem I encountered was the fact that some tips were about how.

While I knew what the WinSxS (Windows Side-by-Side) directory was for, I wasn't quite sure why that directory would explode in size so fast with normal .

5 Mar 2009 . The bad news are that i don't recommend doing any manual removals on winsxs folder. Such a step could probably make your applications .

Winsxs folder size is becoming too large. mine is 15gb should optimize this .

14 May 2006 . If a DLL is installed in the WinSxS folder, the local DLLs will be ignored. . Now the CRT DLLs in the WinSxS will be ignored and only the .

10 Feb 2009 . I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I saw the winsxs folder under c:/Windows. It is large in size. It is taking too much space from c: .

19 Feb 2011 . I've seen a few articles about moving the \Windows\winsxs folder. Most of these involve using third-party utilities to do pending moves and .

2 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 20 Jan 2008What is the purpose of the C:\windows\winsxs folder? It's rather large at ~3.5 GB.

9 posts - 5 authors - Last post: 28 Jun 2009Windows 7: Does Windows 7 suffer the Winsxs issue? - Read Windows 7 discussions and get tips and advice on this topic and others on CNET .

27 Jul 2009 . I have a Toshiba Intel laptop x64 4gigs ram and 64gig ssd C drive and a 320Gig D drive. I don't believe that the 9000 directories with 7gigs .

8 Mar 2010 . A guide explaining what the WinSxS folder is, why it gets so big and a few tools to help you manage the ever growing folder.

21 Jun 2010 . Deleting files from the Windows Side-by-side (WinSxS) folder is a bad idea. But, you can shrink the WinSxS folder with vsp1cln.exe and .

4 Jan 2010 . How to clean up and reduce the size of your WinSXS folder on Windows Vista SP1 or SP2. This uses the VSP1CLN.exe or COMPCLN.exe files .

A coworker recently received his every two year work laptop refresh and was in the middle of loading his new laptop with.

14 Oct 2008 . its taken up 12 gigs on my harddrive, how do i safely remove it without hurting the system or make it smaller.

5 Apr 2008 . It's a stalemate. You can't delete it, you can't compress it, you can't help it. Nice design MS. However there is a way out, but it cripples .

The WinSxS directory doesn't take up nearly the space reported by Explorer since it uses Hard Links to physical files, not actual files. .

9 posts - 4 authors - Last post: 8 Jun 2007I have read in many places about winsxs regarding its size and nothing else. . . The second question: What hapend if I delete those Winsxs? .

17 Sep 2008 . A commonly asked question among people looking at a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 installation is “why is the WinSxS folder so big? .

Side-by-side technology is also known as WinSxS or SxS. . In SxS, Windows stores multiple versions of a DLL in the WinSXS subdirectory of the Windows .

20 Nov 2008 . What type of information is stored in the WinSXS directory?

4 Oct 2009 . All of the components in the operating system are found in the WinSxS folder – in fact we call this location the component store. .

4 posts - 3 authors - Last post: 11 Jan 2005I am cleaning up my machine before doing a drive image and notice there is a c:\ windows\WinSxS folder there with multiple subdirectories.

12 posts - 6 authors - Last post: 24 Jun 2009Vista Ultimate: Just wondering. Something new to Vista. C:\Windows\Winsxs uses more space than \system32 (which is a lot).

31 Oct 2008 . It's well-known that the \Windows\winsxs directory in Windows Vista is large and can take up a significant portion of disk space on smaller .

4 May 2009 . The WinSxS (Windows Side-by-Side, located in %windir%\WinSxS) folder is a critical component of Windows Vista. It contains files that are .

24 Jul 2007 . The advantage of winsxs over system32 is that you can have more than one version of a particular DLL with the same name. .

6 Apr 2009 . Secret, elusive, mysterious – the WinSxS folder. . (2) Demystifying the WinSxS directory in Windows XP, Vista and Server .

[Guide] Windows 7 - Safe WinSxS Removal With Vlite and RT Lite and Make OS still updatable General Notices : 1.before u apply this enable or di.

8 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 3 days agoMy laptop, a 705, has an Intel cpu but in the c:\windows\winsxs directory there are many files of names starting with amd64_ Do I need these .

18 Jun 2009 . This is a big folder taking up a lot of space. I know it is very important and would not dream of interfering with it but it seems to grow .

13 Jan 2009 . "What is the c:\windows\winsxs\manifestcache\6.0.6001.18000_001c50b5_blobs.bin file and why is it taking up 156Mb on my hard drive? .

24 Feb 2011 . Because the component store (\Winsxs) is needed to repair the OS . Winsxs\ Backup: Backups of the manifest files in case the copy in .

40 posts - 25 authors - Last post: 13 Sep 2008The WinSxS folder is a system folder, just like the Windows, . . There is no way to 'safely' delete anything in the WinSxS folder, .

I started with a WinSxS folder of 10.9 GB. After running the cleaning tool, it dropped to 8.48 GB - nearly 2.5 GB! While this doesn't matter so much on .

If I link a module against mydll.dll, which is deployed using WinSxS, . It does so via the "activation context". In my opinion, WinSxS does not make any sense .

6 Oct 2010 . Are you asking yourself what the WinSxS folder is and why it is so big . The only safe way to reduce the size of the WinSxS folder on the .

15 posts - 11 authors - Last post: 14 Dec 2007Is there anything I can do to reduce the size of the winsxs folder ? Currently I have a winsxs folder of 6.5 GB, wich is over half the size .

7 May 2007 . Before Windows Side-by-Side Assemblies, or WinSxS, (introduced with Windows XP in the Windows\WinSxS directory) the world was plunged into .

About Microsoft Windows Vista Features, Vista Winsxs Folder, Vista Optimization.

5 Oct 2009 . WinSxS is not as new as it seems (apparently it dates back to Windows ME), nor is it as undocumented as it seems. However, the documentation .

3 posts - 1 author - Last post: 3 Apr 2008I'm computer-illiterate. sorta. My C drive all of a sudden has become overloaded (if that makes sense) and I was trying to figure out why, .

This was the query of one of our readers who wanted to know about this folder in Windows 7 called WinSxS. The folder contains thousands of files and .

24 Jul 2010 . Windows users who have run a disk space analyzer like TreeSize in the last days may have stumbled for the first time upon the Winsxs folder .

5 Dec 2007 . A coworker of mine, Matt Wade, has detailed the steps on how to move the WinSxS and SoftwareDistribution (Windows Updates) directory here; .

18 posts - Last post: 16 Jun 2008I have just noticed this large(ish) directory under C:/Windows. Is this new ( i.e. post SP3) or has it always been there?

15 Sep 2009 . I've seen a recurring post on many forums discussing the absurd amount of disk space being consumed by the C:\Windows\WinSXS folder.

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