Saturday, February 18, 2012

Cleanup WinSXS in Windows 7

The winsxs folder under c:\windows is used to store install and uninstall files, windows packages, and out-of-band releases. This folder should NEVER be deleted. However it can grow to an unmanageable size. Running the command:

dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded

from an elevated command prompt will remove unecessary files.

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