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Mar 21, 2008, 08:00 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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winsxs folder in c:\Windows
OKay so this is quite a shock to me
it seems that windows vista has this folder in c:\windows\winsxs ... it contains 49,731 files... 13,746 folders for a grand total of 9.96gigs this totals HALF my hard drive's amount of files and folders ... seems like a giant waste. Anyone know the use of this folder (it seems to contain a copy of every single patch I've installed) and whether or not it can be cleaned up? |
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Mar 24, 2008, 09:00 AM
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Mar 25, 2008, 05:07 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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Vista works as though WinME did before in year 2000.
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Apr 8, 2008, 07:06 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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God help us all...
after updating today (10 updates), my windows folder is 17 GIGS 10,692,772 KB = winsxs 1,338,652 KB = Installer 1,126,660 KB = System32 1,047,428 KB = SysWOW64 919,480 KB = assembly the rest is here and there ... WHAT THE HELLLLLLLLLLLL man I don't really mind but this is shocking stuff. After 2 years of updating Vista, do u guys think it'll take up sometime like 70 gigs??? I can't wait to find out lol... So much for putting Vista on a 16gb iRAM drive... |
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Apr 9, 2008, 02:26 AM
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lol I usually compress the winsxs folder
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Apr 9, 2008, 02:52 AM
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in XP i used to use upto 35GB (starting from around 10GB or so when hard drive's free space were hard to find back then) for system drives,
but now for Vista i begin to use around 40-80GB for system partitions. i don't care about compressing system files by myself any more since a larger drives are now available at low cost. btw, i couldn't see the topic name. lol.  Last edited by PangingJr; Apr 9, 2008 at 03:02 AM. |
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Apr 9, 2008, 10:20 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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those KB's are Kilobytes man. not windows patches.
I'm showing you how big (in Kilobytes) my windows folder is. and its contents. anyways this has gotten pointless... I can't wait for someone to figure out what's safe to remove and what's not. The size and amount of files in that folder pisses me off. |
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Apr 9, 2008, 10:21 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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Winsxs = 50,000 files as of right now.
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