Comments on: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:28:09 +0000

Yep. Mine is 20 GB now and counting…

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:16:28 +0000

the winsxs folder is such bull. mine is 16gb and i’ve got sp2 and already ran their “cleanup” tool. the winsxs folder is actually 53% of my windows folder.

By: Gubbi

Gubbi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:32:12 +0000

Thanks.

By: Gubbi

Gubbi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:31:40 +0000

Absolutely !! And also by including at least some way of cleaning up unused dlls.

By: rolfen

rolfen — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:14:37 +0000

Well… just look who it benefits
- Less space = less space to install other OSes (linux and osx if youre running a macbook)
- More HD demand = well, HD manufacturers are gonna like it

The thing that some ppl dont understand and that really bothers me, is not the space in itself, is that as a software knowledgeable person, I KNOW there are other ways to solve this problem. They could have used some sort of system that stores DELTA differences, and it would have resulted in AT LEAST twice less used space for the same functionality (most probably more then 4x size reduction in reality).

By: szmoker

szmoker — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:41:44 +0000

We have Vista Business, Office 2007 Basic.
It means all the programs we use on the PCs are Outlook, Excel and Word, no other programs installed, no other programs ever used.
The WinSxS here is well over 8,5gb.

There's a 20gb partition for OS, and it has about 50mb free, after cleaning everything I could think of (including the never-used hibernate file).

Maybe I'll install Linux with OpenOffice next time.

By: lolwindowssux

lolwindowssux — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:08:14 +0000

Guys, it’s freaking SYSTEM RESTORE. If you install a game like GTA4, ofcourse there will be 15GB shit in that directory. Turn of system restore and all files will be deleted. You can turn it on again to have system restore working from that point again.

By: Dogan

Dogan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:48:48 +0000

worse than bloat. cant you think anything else than $$, larger system partition means larger image files for backup/restore/migrate and that means time, MS is stealing our time not only money.

By: robanco

robanco — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:45:19 +0000

Three laptops with the same problem, one only has 20gb HDD, a Fujitsu U1010 and half is taken by these two files. Run speed is contunially degrading as this Winsxs files grows. I have not loaded anything other than Office 2007 but it seems that the file grows with Internet usage.

By: Uthaya

Uthaya — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:42:57 +0000

Explanation from Microsoft on why WinSxS exists:

http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx