Vista Ultimate 64: directory winsxs and growth: more than 16 GB now! Help!
Hello
I use this new platform to address my major problem that I have with my installation of SP1 for Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit : the size of the "winsxs" - folder (C:\Windows\winsxs).
I installed my Vista on April 4, 2008, so old now is about 9 months. I have always keep my system up-to-date with Microsoft Update and use any of these 3rd - party-'clean-up-tools', just to avoud questions in this sense in advance.
The problem is: the size of my "winsxs" - file ist 16 GB now, and even more to the day the day! At the moment, it is more than half of my total space used on my C: partition!
My C: partition is about 50 GB in total, so with a continued growth of "winsxs" as he has done so far free space on C: will be exhausted by April 2009!
What should I do next? Do a clean reinstall after format C:? I highly doubt that! There MUST be a way to get rid of winsxs-useless stuff!
How can I clean winsxs? How can I avoid more and more until my C partition any is blighted by winsxs?
Help, please!
Happy new year to date,
Cobold
Screenshot (with German graphical interface of Vista, but you get the point) of winsxs-properties is visible under the following link: http://home.arcor.de/cobold03/winsxs.jpg
No, if you do not have a backup utility, you ask to reinstall a clean if you need fix the system. Miss you now a way to repair of original media, as SP1 is an upgrade. You can remove anything else, as the other uninstall updates assumes the same dilemma
Mark L. Ferguson MS - MVP
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