{"id":2020,"date":"2012-06-27T14:34:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:28:33","slug":"reduce-windows-7-winsxs-folder-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/2012\/06\/reduce-windows-7-winsxs-folder-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Windows 7 WinSxS Folder Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WinSxS folder stores Windows Packages, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-discount.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about it<\/a>  some are not needed anymore.<\/p>\n<p>To clean it you need to do as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Search for &#8220;cmd&#8221;  \u00a0(without the quotes) \u00a0 \u00a0in the start menu, <a href=\"http:\/\/buycheap-cialisonline.net\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no rx<\/a>  right click on cmd.exe and click run as administrator then run the following in the command prompt:<\/p>\n<p>dism \/Cleanup-Wim<\/p>\n<p>This does as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Deletes resources associated with a mounted image that has been corrupted.<br \/>\nThis command will not unmount a mounted image, nor will it delete images that<br \/>\ncan be recovered using the \/Remount-WIM command.<\/p>\n<p>Also Run:<\/p>\n<p>dism \/Online \/Cleanup-Image \/spsuperseded<\/p>\n<p>This does as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">WARNING! The service pack can&#8217;t be uninstalled after this operation is<br \/>\ncompleted. This operation will remove backup files created during service<br \/>\npack installation. Use \/hidesp switch to hide the service pack from Installed<br \/>\nUpdates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The explaination for the switches can be found here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/dd744382(WS.10)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/dd744382(WS.10)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>dism &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">DISM enumerates, installs, uninstalls, configures, and updates features<br \/>\nand packages in Windows images. The commands that are available depend<br \/>\non the image being serviced and whether the image is offline or running.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As always I am not responsible for any damages that may happened.  \u00a0Do this at your own risk.<\/p>\n<p>Please put a nice comment if this helped you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WinSxS folder stores Windows Packages, about it some are not needed anymore. To clean it you need to do as follows: Search for &#8220;cmd&#8221; \u00a0(without the quotes) \u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_seo_fixer_meta_description":"","_seo_fixer_focus_keyword":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[91,88,89,90],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-folder-size","tag-reduce","tag-windows-7","tag-winsxs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}