Recently I went into a small problem. I brought new parts and in short needs to move OS on a raid0 drive into a tiny SSD. Long story short I found the folder winsxs folder is 27Gb. After reading I have the understanding that they are pointers, not physical files, so the multiple pointers may points to the same file, multiplying its size. In short, it doesn't consume 27Gb, but it shows 27Gb.
Still, duplicate references are not good IMO and I still wants to clean it. After 2 days of google-fu I found out that for each service pack on vista, it actually comes with a tool for cleanup backups done for the sevice pack. What is interesting is that it not only cleanup the backups but all other garbages created by the OS.
Since this files came with OS, I take it as reliable. For vista SP1, the cleaner file name is VSP1CLN.exe located in system32. For vista SP2, it is COMPCLN.exe. Reports indicates that it will greatly reduce the size of winsxs for both 32bit and 64bit vista. I have yet find the one for windows 7.
For those who knew this, please share some tips and experience.
Still, duplicate references are not good IMO and I still wants to clean it. After 2 days of google-fu I found out that for each service pack on vista, it actually comes with a tool for cleanup backups done for the sevice pack. What is interesting is that it not only cleanup the backups but all other garbages created by the OS.
Since this files came with OS, I take it as reliable. For vista SP1, the cleaner file name is VSP1CLN.exe located in system32. For vista SP2, it is COMPCLN.exe. Reports indicates that it will greatly reduce the size of winsxs for both 32bit and 64bit vista. I have yet find the one for windows 7.
For those who knew this, please share some tips and experience.
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