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Old March 23rd 19, 01:31 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default Will winsxs stop growing?

In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On my system, C:\Windows\winsxs occupies 8.5G, out of the 36G used on
my C:, which I try to keep as just OS-plus-software (i. e. not data).
I've seen various discussions of what winsxs is, which generally
descend fairly rapidly into whether it really is the size it seems to
be, talk about junction points, and so on, to the extent that my
brain hurts; in general, I get the impression that, for bears of
little brain like me, it's something I should leave well alone, and
accept that it will grow as time goes by.
When end of support happens in January, will it stop growing?


There seem to be a lot of references to Windows Update
in the article here, so my guess is there won't be substantial
future changes.

https://www.howtogeek.com/174705/how...-your-winsxs-f
older-on-windows-7-or-8/


Thanks, I might have a look at that sometime.

An application might cause a supporting subsystem to be installed,
in which case there might be a tiny change to it. That's why
I don't think the possibility is "exactly" zero, but it will be
close to zero changes.

More damaging


(To disc space I presume you mean.)

, might be the keeping of copies of program
installer MSI files, and programs that keep their own
"uninstall materials". Such as say, Chrome, keeping a 150MB
cache contained in some sort of ZIP, which is used for uninstall
or repair.


I suppose it might conceivably be needed for repair; I can't see why it
should be needed for uninstall. (Nice to know you can in theory still
uninstall Chrome!)

And application like Macrium is an absolute pig
when it comes to wasted space, and stuff squirreled here and
there. You might hear me emit a "Grrr..." under my breath
when I'm using sequoiaview/windirstat and notice this
sort of thing.


Thanks for the warning. I haven't actually installed Macrium on here - I
always boot from the CD when making an image, and the CD I made on my XP
machine has worked fine on this machine so far (including a restore [to
a bigger drive]). But I'll look out for that - if I remember! - if I
ever think to install it.

Paul

John
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