Windows Server 2008 SP1: The C:\Windows\winsxs folder consuming 15Gb (!) of disk space.

It's really annoying because at the time of installation, we thought that 25 GB should be plenty for the drive that contains the operating system only! Now we ran out of disk space on C:! (The only software installed on top of Windows is SQLServer 2008...). We organize this server and it's VERY expensive to get the C drive extended by our provider. So I'm looking for a solution urgently... and I can't seem to find it.

Three questions:

1. is there a tool offered by microsoft to reduce the size of this folder?

2. upgrade to Windows 2008 R2 reduces disk space on C:\Windows\winsxs. In this way we can (temporarily) expand the capacity, perform the upgrade and return to 25 GB.

3 - is Windows 2008 R2 also having this winsxs 'feature '?

Kind regards

Merijn

Here is the Vista Forums.

http://www.Microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/forums-blogs.aspx

Above link is Server 2008 Forums.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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