what are the side effects of removing the "winsxs" folder?

[amocanu]

i am a little confused about this issue...

what are the side effects of removing the winsxs folder?

[aviv00]

good thing is space save as u know

but its break the feathers add/remove

and hotfix [ windows update ]

wait for more posts maybe there more important things

Edited December 26, 2007 by aviv00

[MFCK]

Hi all !

I've made a very vLited install (-extreme) and now i'm not able to register OEM SLIC (slmgr.vbs -ilc "oem.lic").

I dont know if is due the winsxs removal. I must test again without winsxs removal !

Edit : OK, i'm wrong here, it's not due winsxs removal.

maibe the culprit is "Network List Service" needed for SL UI Notification ??!!

Edited December 28, 2007 by MFCK

[aviv00]

did u remove the Software Licensing or SL UI Notification Service ?

[MFCK]

I dont see "Software Licensing or SL UI Notification Service" in my preset.

Network List Service is not removed.

I dont see where i'm wrong ?

Edited December 29, 2007 by MFCK

[Legolash2o]

removing it means you cannot get Windows Defender Definition Updates or whatever there called and it just bugs you that its out of date lol

Edited December 28, 2007 by legolash2o

[LeveL]

Are you talking about removing the entire winsxs folder?

Surely not? It has all the .NET Framework and C++ classes there!

I am struggling to use vLite at the moment on Vista... keep getting a BSOD but its not because of vLite, its doing it on the old beta and the new 1.1RC which I know worked in the past, I am gonna do it all on XP in VMware, where theres a will theres a way.

[simba49]

The main thing you need to know is that windows update will not function.