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Will Integrating Updates Reduce WinSxS Size?


Jody Thornton

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From my very limited understanding of WinSxS, regardless of whether the updates are slipstreamed or installed later, files are kept in WinSxS so that they are able to be uninstalled or reinstalled later, or in case they are needed during the install of future updates. MS introduced the ability to clean out some of these "obsolete" files in Win8, which shrinks the WinSxS folder somewhat and they have recently backported that to Win7, but not to Vista AFAIK.

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I was able to find v1.8 of WinSxS Lite which seems to do a credible job of searching out what componenets are obsolete, and then it can delete them (Almost like DISM for Vista...lol, but not really). I may try that and see if Windows Updates work afterwards.

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