harkaz Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 UPDATE: I found a way to properly remove staged OS Editions (Working offline on Windows 7 Home Premium image).However, the winsxs size was reduced only slightly: 70 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harkaz Posted December 25, 2015 Author Share Posted December 25, 2015 Rebase Beta Build has been reached. Pending tasks: Error handling and log output, Documentation, EULA, Release Trailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harkaz Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 Rebase RTM (1.0.20.16) is ready. A release trailer will be uploaded in a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 results pls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harkaz Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 Release trailer ready: Win7 Pro x86 winsxs reduced from: 6.77 GB to 5.29 GB without the extreme option, 4.40 GB with the extreme option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alacran Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 (edited) Too much risk for only 1.5 GB (without the extreme option). You can disable system restore and get more free GBs (just make an image of your system on an external USB drive to be safe). Edited December 27, 2015 by alacran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harkaz Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 @alacran Sent you a PM. Hope this will reassure you that rebase is reliable. And remember: you save 1.5 GB in addition to what system restore cleanup would save you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harkaz Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 Rebase Build 1.0.20.21Release date: 30 Dec 2015BUG FIX: Rebase will not cleanup updates added offline.Reason: All updates installed offline are marked as pending and rebase was programmed not to remove files corresponding to updates that are marked as pending. Now rebase will ignore the pending indication if working offline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFX Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Sounds very interesting! How much space does it saves with the default recommended updates providedby Windows Updates (~ 209 updates if I recall correct)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harkaz Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 It saves about 2 GB on x64 systems, 1 GB on x86 systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxman Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 And, on a related note... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harkaz Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 It saves 2GB more after running this hotfix you mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFX Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 2GB sounds good. Keeps only the active and base versions of every component in the component store. Runtime components which require multiple versions to be present (e.g CRT, ATL) are not affectedJust wonder, I'm no really friend of deleting files in WinSxS folder.But wouldn't it be much safer to simple replace all superseded components with hardlink to the newest version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harkaz Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) Rebase will leave placeholder-files in the winsxs folders of size ~30 bytes each.Hardlinks will not decrease the size reported (including the wim file) and may cause problems in the future. As a side note, rebase does not touch any hardlinks necessary to service future updates. Edited January 7, 2016 by harkaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) he'd have to do it manualyas registry holds "bonds" and that is nightmare Edited January 8, 2016 by vinifera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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