"Ant" wrote

| Mine is almost 9 GB even though my 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 is from October
| 2016 and kept updated. I even use Disk Cleanup monthly to remove its
| WUs.
|
9 GB. Chicken feed.
If you do a search for winsxs GB you'll find 20, 30, 60....
There's no limit to the madness.

I had a Vista laptop with 80 GB used. It was
updated to 7 and still took up 80 GB of space.
(Very little software.) I had to reinstall Vista
from scratch, then do the update, in order to
clean out the mess.