Author Topic: winxs is taking quite a memory in ssd (Read 12907 times)

vikrant singh · « **on:** August 05, 2013, 08:51:06 pm »

My laptop has vista installed and i want to install win7 but the SSD is less then 20GB. one folder which is quite big and covering most of the space in SSD. is it possible to move it to some external location and install win7?
Thanks mate
Vik

Shane · « **Reply #1 on:** August 06, 2013, 07:37:04 pm »

The winsxs folder is something that will always continue to grow and never shrink, some great idea by someone at MS lol

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx

Shane

Willy2 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 07, 2013, 12:36:53 am »

- If I had to move from Vista to Win 7 then I would simply do a fresh Win 7 install and get rid of all Vista rubbish.
- It's possible to reduce the winsxs subfolder:
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,933.0.html

Pendaws · « **Reply #3 on:** August 10, 2013, 11:57:13 pm »

I have a problem somewhat similar. I have a 120gb SSD and the silly WINSXS folder is eating up
11gb of the space on it. If I had the Windows/Installer folder that is another 3.8gb.

I guess I will have to bite the bullet and get a bigger drive, so sad that MS has to do this sort
of thing in Win7/8 and Vista.

ekarafilis · « **Reply #4 on:** September 09, 2013, 09:05:25 am »

Check out http://www.karafilis.net/winsxs-cleanup/ , it explains everything about cleaning up winSXS.

Shane · « **Reply #5 on:** September 09, 2013, 11:39:34 am »

Quote from: ekarafilis on September 09, 2013, 09:05:25 am

Check out http://www.karafilis.net/winsxs-cleanup/ , it explains everything about cleaning up winSXS.

Good find

To bad it is only for Windows 8 and 2012.

But it does make a good point about the folder size may be wrong because of the symbolic links.

I should make a small tool to show the correct size

Shane