Window 7 64 bit using 13.4 GB of Winsxs even after speaker

I use Windows 7 64 bit and am exhausted over the disk space and find the Windows folder > Winsxs is having more than 17,000 files / subfolders from 2009 and using 13.4 GB of space.

I have the speaker and also track dism.exe. Prior to that, I made sure that installed this update fix 2852386 (again, I downloaded and tried to install it, the message appeared that it is already installed).

In utility speaker, I cannot find the files 'Window cleaning was updated', but it shows "backup files from the service pack" with O byte.

Please help me if there is something possible to do to get rid of old files that is located in the folder since July 14, 2009.

Vimal Goyal

Hello

There are not many things that you can do with the WinSxS folder, and that the size is not uncommon.

If you make a mistake in it, you can make your operating system unusable.

"How to approach the problems of disk space that are caused by a large directory of store (WinSxS) Windows component"

https://support.Microsoft.com/en-us/KB/2795190/

The store (C:\Windows\winsxs) Directory Windows component is used during maintenance operations in the installations of Windows. Maintenance operations include, but are not limited to, Windows Update, service packs and patches installations.

The component store contains all the files that are required for a Windows installation. And, updates to these files are also held in the component store as the updates are installed. This causes the component store to grow over time as more updates, features, or roles are added to the installation. The component store uses hard links NTFS between itself and other directories of Windows to increase the robustness of the Windows platform.

The component store will show a size large directory because of the way the Windows Explorer shell holds into account hard links. The Windows shell is taken into account each reference to a hard link as a single instance of the file for each directory in which the file is located. For example, if a file named advapi32.dll is 700ko and figure in the component store and in the \Windows\system32 directory, Windows Explorer incorrectly reports that the file consumes 1 400 KB of hard disk space

The component store cannot reside on one volume other than the system because NTFS hard links volume. If you try to move the component store, this will result in the inability to correctly install Windows updates, service packs, roles or functions. In addition, we do not recommend that you manually remove or delete files from the component store.

To reduce the size of the store directory of component on a Windows installation, you can choose to make the installation of the service pack permanent and recover space used of the service pack files. However, if you do the permanent installation of the service pack, the service pack is not removable.

To delete the files from the service pack to a Windows installation, use the following utilities of the box:

  • Windows Vista Service Pack 1 installed: VSP1CLN. EXE
  • Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 installed: Compcln.exe
  • Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 installed: DISM / online /Cleanup - Image /SpSuperseded or the wizard disk cleanup (cleanmgr.exe)

And this can help you too:

http://www.howtogeek.com/174705/how-to-reduce-the-size-of-your-WinSxS-folder-on-Windows-7-or-8/

Why the WinSXS folder becomes too big

The WinSXS folder contains all of the components of Windows System. In fact, the component elsewhere in Windows files are links to files in the WinSXS folder. The WinSXS folder contains all the operating system files.

See you soon.

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