x-Shadow-x Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 (edited) So I was testing my edited windows on a virtual machine, and I gave it 10GB of hard drive space. Well next thing I new it, it was full. I dug around and I found it was the winsxs folder in the windows folder. The folder is almost 6GB's!! I dont know why its so big, its never happened before to me. Any suggestions?Shadow Edited July 21, 2008 by x-Shadow-x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 The folder is almost 6GB's!! I dont know why its so bigThat's perfectly normal. Mine's even bigger (closer to 7) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-Shadow-x Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 Wow really? Mine is about 2 gig. Thanks crahak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 The more apps you install, the more assemblies (ad different version of it) get installed, the bigger that directory is going to grow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-Shadow-x Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 The thing is, I havent install ANY programs yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techtype Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 The thing is, I havent install ANY programs yet.Sounds like you changed to Vista 64? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-Shadow-x Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 Nope, its 32, and a clean install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I've found that using vLite to strip out all languages but the actual one you're going to use reduces the SXS folder size to a more manageable ~1.8GB after x64 install (not sure about x86). I've actually got everything installed on this box (including VS 2008) and I'm only at ~4.5GB, which is smaller than a base x64 OS without stripping languages was (about 6GB after install). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-Shadow-x Posted July 24, 2008 Author Share Posted July 24, 2008 Well I havent striped out anything yet, so im used to the "small" folder of my striped out version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4ngr0v3 Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 mines around the 12GB mark on vista x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alman84 Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I've found that using vLite to strip out all languages but the actual one you're going to use reduces the SXS folder size to a more manageable ~1.8GB after x64 install (not sure about x86). I've actually got everything installed on this box (including VS 2008) and I'm only at ~4.5GB, which is smaller than a base x64 OS without stripping languages was (about 6GB after install).I can verify this. I was running out of HD space on some older machines that I put Vista on and stripping the languages works wonders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meowing Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 I've found that using vLite to strip out all languages but the actual one you're going to use reduces the SXS folder size to a more manageable ~1.8GB after x64 install (not sure about x86). I've actually got everything installed on this box (including VS 2008) and I'm only at ~4.5GB, which is smaller than a base x64 OS without stripping languages was (about 6GB after install).I can verify this. I was running out of HD space on some older machines that I put Vista on and stripping the languages works wonders.Is there an easy way to strip out those languages post install? I mean really, this is an absurd way of keeping backups. No wonder Vista is so hated by everybody I know. That folder alone is taking up more space than the total room required by ALL software I ever used plus Windows XP x64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-Shadow-x Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Search the forums for "vlite". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meowing Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Search the forums for "vlite".I wrote "post install", not "pre install". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-Shadow-x Posted August 10, 2008 Author Share Posted August 10, 2008 With vlite you REMOVE the languages you don't want with vlite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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