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Windows 7 - winsxs |
Mon, Nov 16 2009 2:04 PM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | I always thought the registry was MS's biggest fup but
I wondered why my (Vista) c drive was looking rather bloated and discovered winsxs. In my case it was c9 Gb. Following a few instructions on the net I got rid of the sp2 stuff so I'm only left with a c6 Gb winsxs directory. What sort of size have the Windows7 adopters amongst you got? Roy Lambert |
Mon, Nov 16 2009 5:31 PM | Permanent Link |
Charalampos Michael | Dear Roy,
> I always thought the registry was MS's biggest fup but > > I wondered why my (Vista) c drive was looking rather bloated and discovered winsxs. In my case it was c9 Gb. Following a few instructions on the net I got rid of the sp2 stuff so I'm only left with a c6 Gb winsxs directory. > > What sort of size have the Windows7 adopters amongst you got? > > Roy Lambert Windows 7 64-bit Total Files Listed: 43307 File(s) - 6.911.880.251 bytes -- Charalampos Michael - [Creation Power] - http://www.creationpower.gr |
Tue, Nov 17 2009 2:26 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Charalampos
Ouch. About the same then. Roy Lambert |
Tue, Nov 17 2009 3:42 AM | Permanent Link |
Charalampos Michael | Dear Roy,
> Ouch. About the same then. Don't forget that it's the 64-bit so it contains also the 32-bit libraries ... -- Charalampos Michael - [Creation Power] - http://www.creationpower.gr |
Tue, Nov 17 2009 5:58 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Charalampos
OK so its a bit better, I still think its a bloody imposition grabbing that much of my disk space without providing ANY tools to remove the crap. Roy Lambert |
Tue, Nov 17 2009 9:10 AM | Permanent Link |
Uli Becker | Roy,
Windows7 prof. 32 bit: 4 GB Uli |
Tue, Nov 17 2009 11:59 AM | Permanent Link |
"Raul" | Win7 Pro 32bit also approx 4GB
However if this blog is to be believed then actual usage is way lower and number we're seeing is simlpy explorer showing hard links as actual consumed space : http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/19/disk-space.aspx Raul "Roy Lambert" <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote in message news:3C4CCDFA-A063-4E3A-BAAF-B87D8C3828E2@news.elevatesoft.com... >I always thought the registry was MS's biggest fup but > > I wondered why my (Vista) c drive was looking rather bloated and > discovered winsxs. In my case it was c9 Gb. Following a few instructions > on the net I got rid of the sp2 stuff so I'm only left with a c6 Gb winsxs > directory. > > What sort of size have the Windows7 adopters amongst you got? > > Roy Lambert |
Tue, Nov 17 2009 12:15 PM | Permanent Link |
"Raul" | Now i got curious...
According to this utility (http://msftmvp.com/ntfsutil.aspx) my winsxs folder that explorer sees as 4GB contains 3GB or hard-linked files and 1GB of actual files. So actual usage from file system perspective should be "only" 1GB. Raul "Raul" <raul@raul.ca> wrote in message news:37A32753-9F5D-425E-A7E3-791E0D0C0957@news.elevatesoft.com... > Win7 Pro 32bit also approx 4GB > > However if this blog is to be believed then actual usage is way lower and > number we're seeing is simlpy explorer showing hard links as actual > consumed space : > http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/19/disk-space.aspx > > Raul > |
Tue, Nov 17 2009 12:17 PM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Raul
>However if this blog is to be believed then actual usage is way lower and >number we're seeing is simlpy explorer showing hard links as actual consumed >space : http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/19/disk-space.aspx This may actually be the case BUT Windows (you know the OS produced by the bloggers company) also thinks its been used (ditto for any disk tools I have). Also this just doesn't stack up. If I delete an app it doesn't actually get rid of the stuff winsxs has accumulated MS mention something to do with the OS scavenging the space back from unused stuff but none of the threads I've read so far has seen any evidence of it. If its just a link, hard or soft, how can it still be there when the bloody file has been deleted? I know I can do nothing I just wish MS would get a few designers/developers who live in the real world not their ivory tower. Roy Lambert |
Tue, Nov 17 2009 1:37 PM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Raul
I tried it but on Vista I just get [Window Title] C:\Zap\SizeSxs.exe [Content] C:\Zap\SizeSxs.exe is not a valid Win32 application. [OK] Roy Lambert |
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