My winsxs folder is 13 GB and growing. Any chance delete anything in this file?

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  read the review here by Ronnie Vernon MVP and leave it alone

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• Vista:-winsxs folder is too big

  How to "winsxs" cleaning fees

  You do not touch it!

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/itprovistasetup/thread/9411dbaa-69ac-43a1-8915-749670cec8c3

  Read the advice given by Ronnie Vernon MVP in the thread above:

  aviv00

  You posted some very, very bad advice on this Web site that you referenced.

  The WinSxS folder is 'supposed' to have duplicates of files system and other components. It is one of the main reasons that it is created in the first place.

  If you remember "DLL _' where you install software programs that would overwrite files dll system with their own versions and cause other programs to break in the process. It's a huge problem, and the WinSxS folder has been created to solve this problem.

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  Ronnie Vernon

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• Winsxs folder

  There is a folder in C:/Windows/winsxs which contains many files with the prefix of amd64_ such as
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  They pull up close to 6 GB of disk space. These files are a kind of temporary files and can they be deleted safely?

  If you delete this folder you is no longer an operating system. Leave it alone!

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  SINNCE the continuous breeding winsxs folder - can it safely be moved to another partition on the hard drive or a secondary hard drive? -in the affirmative; How?

  Shailesh

  Hello

  SINNCE the continuous breeding winsxs folder - can it safely be moved to another partition on the hard drive or a secondary hard drive? -in the affirmative; How?

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  First of all, read this: http://aspoc.net/archives/2008/11/20/winsxs-disk-space-and-windows-7/ he might change his mind.

  Secondly, yes you can but I (and others) would not recommend it: http://aspoc.net/archives/2008/11/20/winsxs-disk-space-and-windows-7/