How to delete the winsxs folder

The size of the WinSxS folder has always been a problem for users of Windows Vista and Windows 7. The continuous growth of this folder as a storage place for all libraries, resource files and system folders, causing the desire to remove a monster that devours disk space. Unfortunately, you can not do that.

You will need

• - vspcin.exe (для Windows Vista);
• - compcin.exe (для Windows 7);
• - WinsxsLite

Instruction

1. Download and run the utility vspcin.exe (for Windows Vista) or compcin.exe (for Windows 7) for the initial treatment and attempts to reduce the size of the WinSxS folder. Delete the selected folder may lead to the impossibility of operation of the computer due to the fact that WinSxS is the main storage of the operating system.
2. Download the small program WinsxsLite (564 KB) and unzip it into the same folder.
3. Run WinsxsLite script to perform the operation of reducing the size of the folder WunSXS by removing unnecessary and duplicate files.
   
   The program, which is .bat file created by the developer Christian Bering Boegh and distributed freely.
4. Click 2 to start Phase 1 scan (inspection and assessment of the WinSxS folder), and then do the button 2 and the letters A to start Phase 1 apply (wipe). This allows you to define files, Program Files and Windows folders, duplicate files in a folder WnSxS.
5. Wait until the process completes and restart the computer to release the employment files. Some files stored in a folder, available for changes, so program WinsxsLite forced to create the TODOlist, the information from which is used after you restart the computer.
6. Click 2 to start Phase 2 scan, and then do the button 2 and the letters A to start Phase 2 apply. This will allow to replace old files of the WinSxS folder with hard links to the new versions of the files.
7. Wait until the process of reducing the size of the WinSxS folder (it may take up to two hours) and restart the computer to apply the selected changes.
8. Compare the size of the edited folder with the previously obtained figures. On assurances of the author of the program a real decrease must be up to 25% of the former.