Winsxs Seven large size: someone deleted it ?

Winsxs folder in Seven large size: someone deleted it ?

Ok, after a long search I know " all " about winsxs, his always growing and hateful size, his function etc etc. but I wonder: someone tried to delete it ? Which consequences ? Conflicts, system instability, security or application issues ? Nothing of this ?

 

Re: Winsxs folder in Seven large size: someone deleted it ?

Never tried that - like never tried to delete 'Windows' folder also.

 

http://www.winvistaclub.com/f16.html

well,

i guess the best way to find out is to delete the darn thing and see what happens!

but make sure you got a disk image first to go back to.
i'll give it a try and see how it goes.

i wouldn't mind getting rid of 5 GB of disk space if it' s not useful...

 

wow!

there's way too much crap to delete and Windows keeps throwing warnings when i try to delete stuff.

i guess i'll just boot into Linux and delete the content of the whole folder from Linux.
Linux won't mind if i delete a whole bunch of Windows system folders and files. lol

give me half an hour or so...

 

right....

i booted into a Linux live disk and deleted the content of the WinSxS folder from within Linux...

anyway,
deleting the content of the WinSxS folder is a very bad idea, at least on Win 8.1 lol

it bricks the machine completely.
after a couple of forced reboot the Win 8.1 Repair and Diagnostic tool comes up but nothing short of restoring an image will do.
which is what i did.

oh well, at least i tried. lol

 

Yes, you found out the hard way. I would have warned you if I had seen this sooner. Never delete anything from that folder.

 

well,
it was only about 4 minutes to restore a disk image with IFL.
so i really don't mind bricking my machine. lol

the lure of maybe getting rid of 5 GB of disk space was just too good to pass up.

oh well.

 

4 minutes is great. It takes me about an hour and a half to restore an image.

 

wow!

you must have a whole bunch of programs installed...

 

Not sure if it helps with winsxs directly, but try this (just to free space): http://www.raymond.cc/blog/safely-delete-unused-msi-and-mst-files-from-windows-installer-folder/

 

Thank you ! I have disk image naturally, but I hoped that someone already tried it in the past.

 

This was my hope and my aim.

 

Thank you. I tried it, but it says: all file in use.

 

Well, I tried to delete, in Windows Installer Folder, all the installer files. I'll see. I tried to uninstall some my programs, and the uninstall process works.

 

in Windows 8, you can run the Disk Cleanup tool in Admin mode and select to clean up the Windows Updates.

 

I know, but I have Seven. Anyway, deleting the installer file in these folder, True Image Acronis is damaged, I can't repair neither uninstall it. I have to restore the disk image with the TIA dvd, and give up to slim Seven . All my thankfulness to Microsoft, that make winsxs folder in Seven so large size

 

mine is pretty large too, about 5.1 GB.

i'll keep an eye on it to see if this grows larger over times...

 

It's grows continually with MS updates and other: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/...and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx

 

it has been 1 or 2 Windows Updates since i checked the WinSxS folder.

it is still at 5.07 GB for the moment.
I am using Win 8.1, so i don't know if this problem has been fixed in Win 8/8.1

if it indeed has been fixed in this new version of Windows, so much the better...


i'll keep and eye from time to time on that folder and report if i see any changes.