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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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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. 
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Q9300 @ 500FSB Q9300 @ 3.60GHz 4x1GB DDR2-1333 (PC2-10666) ------------------------------------------------- Don't worry overly much about whether a specific KB article exists for your version of Windows. Standard practice is to grab whatever's available and apply the principles. (I grabbed from the web. Written by someone, somewhere on the web) 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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