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

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