Win. Sx. S Folder in Windows 1. Most of you may have noticed the Win. Sx. S folder in Windows 7/8/1. For those who have not, the folder is situated at C: \Windows\Winsxs and has a whopping size !

Win. Sx. S Folder in Windows 1. Most of you may have noticed the Win. Sx. S folder in Windows 7/8/1. For those who have not, the folder is situated at C: \Windows\Winsxs and has a whopping size !

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Mine is almost 5 GB and has around 6. Windows folder ! While the size of this Winsxs folder, in XP is around 2. MB; its large size in Windows 1.

Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista, is intriguing, to many ! Check the image below. So what is the mystery of this Winsxs folder in Windows Vista and later? Let us find so, in this post. The Winsxs folder, stores multiple copies of dll. If you browse inside, you will see what look like a lot of duplicate dlls, each having the same name. These are actually, different versions of the same files which are being stored; as different programs may require different versions.

Win. Sx. S folder Windows 1. In short, Winsxs, which stands for .

Libraries which are being by multiple applications are stored there. This feature was first introduced, in Windows ME and was considered as Microsoft’s solution to the so- called . In Winsxs the . These primarily consist of .

In Windows 7 and later, there isn’t a . It is this Win. Sx. S folder which stores the shared components of side- by- side applications. These files can be multiple versions of the same assembly or application.

Every side- by- side assembly has a unique identity. One of the attributes of the assembly identity is its version. The Winsxs folder includes all manifests, optional components and 3rd party Win. But, why so many subfolders, and why keep so many different versions of the same dll, exe or other files ? As mentioned, Windows stores the old dll. Now if a newer version of this file is a part of the OS, but a particular application requires a particular older version for running, then the older version from the winsxs folder will be used, leaving the newer version in its present place, for other applications which may require it. So obviously you cannot delete this directory or move it elsewhere.

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Nor is it advisable to delete anything here, as such a step could probably make your applications un- workable or even break your system! If you have many applications installed, you can expect to have a jumbo sized winsxs folder.

This Win. Sxs folder cannot reside on any other volume than the system volume. This is because of the NTFS hard links. If you try to move the folder, it may result in Windows updates, service packs, features, etc, not installing correctly. If you delete components from the Win. Sx. S folder like the manifests or the assemblies, etc, you could be in trouble. Each system would react differently. What may work for one could break another!

For instance, if you install a program that requires that particular assembly, which you may have deleted, then that program will just not run! Compressing the folder is also a no- no, as it could cause problems during Windows.

Updates or while installing a Hotfix. The safest way to clean it, is by simply uninstalling applications which you don’t require. However, this too is not fool- proof, as many applications still leave behind their files here, since they may be shared between other applications. So the probability of dud unused dll. Running this command, will analyze the Win.

Sx. S folder and tell you whether a Component Store Cleanup is recommended or not. In Windows 8, open Disk Cleanup Tool and use the Windows Update Cleanup option to clean the Win. Sxs. Microsoft released an Update that added the Windows Update Cleanup option to Disk Cleanup tool in Windows 7. You can now also clean up Win.

Sx. S in Windows Server 2. R2 with new the new Update. Here are some other options you may consider to free up disk space – some routine and some extreme: Run Disk Cleanup tool or CCleaner. Uninstall unused applications. Move Page file to another drive. Disable hibernation. Use the dedicated dump file option to capture memory dump files on another volume on the system.

Disable system restore points. Offload user profile and program file directories to another volume on the system. Update 1 From Tech. Net Blogs : One of the largest changes between previous versions of Windows and Windows 7 / Vista was a move from an INF described OS to componentization. All of the components in the operating system are found in the Win. Sx. S folder – in fact we call this location the component store.

Each component has a unique name that includes the version, language, and processor architecture that it was built for. The Win. Sx. S folder is the only location that the component is found on the system, all other instances of the files that you see on the system are “projected” by hard linking from the component store.

Now that you know why the store can grow to be so large, your next question is probably to ask why we don’t remove the older versions of the components. The short answer to that is reliability. The component store, along with other information on the system, allows us to determine at any given time what the best version of a component to project is.

That means that if you uninstall a security update we can install the next highest version on the system – we no longer have an “out of order uninstall” problem. It also means that if you decide to install an optional feature, we don’t just choose the RTM version of the component, we’ll look to see what the highest available version on the system is. The only way to safely reduce the size of the Win. Sx. S folder is to reduce the set of possible actions that the system can take – the easiest way to do that is to remove the packages that installed the components in the first place.

This can be done by uninstalling superseded versions of packages that are on your system. Service Pack 1 contains a binary called VSP1.

CLN. EXE, a tool that will make the Service Pack package permanent (not removable) on your system, and remove the RTM versions of all superseded components. This can only be done because by making the Service Pack permanent we can guarantee that we won’t ever need the RTM versions. Update 2 From E7 Blogs : “Modularizing” the operating system was an engineering goal in Windows Vista. This was to solve a number of issues in legacy Windows related to installation, servicing and reliability. The Windows Sx. S directory represents the “installation and servicing state” of all system components. But in reality it doesn’t actually consume as much disk space as it appears when using the built- in tools (DIR and Explorer) to measure disk space used.

The fact that we make it tricky for you to know how much space is actually consumed in a directory is definitely a fair point! The Win. Sx. S directory also enables offline servicing, and makes Windows Vista and later “safe for imaging”.

There have been several blogs and even some “underground” tools that tell you it’s ok to delete the Win. Sx. S directory, and it’s certainly true that after installation, you can remove it from the system and it will appear that the system boots and runs fine. But as described above, this is a very bad practice, as you’re removing the ability to reliably service, all operating system components and the ability to update or configure optional components on your system. Windows only supports the Win.

Sx. S directory on the physical drive in its originally installed location. Conclusion. Let the Win. Sx. S folder be as it is! Learn about the Sysnative folder here. Post ported from WVC.

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