Windows update cleanup and the range of options which were unavailable during the first start would appear in the list check windows update cleanup option in the window that will appear. The main purpose of this folder is to be used during installations, windows updates, upgradepatches for the service packs. Winsxs cleanup in windows 2012 and windows 8 lefteris. Delete contents of folders windows\winsxs and windows. The windows update cleanup option is available only when the disk cleanup wizard detects windows updates that you do not need on the computer. If you have a 2008 r2 server that runs short on the system drive, this post will definitely help you. However, there are ways to reduce the size of the winsxs folder. Download windows vista service pack 1 five language. Did you ever get the windows update cleanup option to show in the disk cleanup utility. Once you have downloaded and installed the update it is necessary to. Guide to freeing up disk space under windows vista scott. Service pack cleanup tool in vista sp2 to clean up old rtm. Further, nearly all of the additional data size can be traced to the winsxs folder. How to clean up winsxs folder on windows 2008 r2 to gain.
Many of us can remember with xp and windows server 2003 when the windows updates were stored in long guid looking folders in the root of the. Dont be shocked if you reclaim 0 bytes running the commands below. To include the winsxs folder in the disk cleanup click the clean up system files button. Update for windows 7 sp1 to cleanup winsxs richard j green. Reduce size of windows 7 sp1 winsxs folder disk cleanup. I was hoping someone could help me cleanup the winsxs folder on the c drive of a few servers. Demystifying the winsxs directory in windows xp, vista and. Vista will just recreate the winsxs folder with the default contents. Winsxs stands for windows sidebyside, and it is used to store critical component store information. Winsxs 05 gb 10 gb total windows the only safe way to reduce the size of the winsxs folder on the disk is to remove the packages that installed the original components. Sp2 also includes a service pack cleanup tool compcln. Clean up component store winsxs folder in windows 10. It also removes the files that were archived after windows vista sp1. On windows vista, there is a folder called winsxs, which stands for windows side by side.
To enable you to roll back to previous updates, updates are stored in the winsxs store even after they are superseded by later updates. You can do that on windows 7 with sp1 and on windows vista sp1, you can do the same thing using a different tool. To let you roll back to previous updates, updates are stored in the winsxs store even after they are superseded by later updates. By clicking download you agree that your use of the. Sp1 winsxs features on demand sp1 0xc0000034 rsat checksur hard links cbs. Eind mei is service pack 2 voor windows vista en windows 2008 server uitgebracht. Therefore, after you run the disk cleanup wizard, you may be unable to. I installed desktop expirience feature so i can use the cleanup tool, but it does not cleanup any old updates. One of the servers i look after has 10gb of directoriesfiles in the winsxs directory.
Again, i understand the whole winsxs hardlinks thing. Fix windows update errors by using the dism or system update. Check the boxes to select the items you want to cleanup and click ok. Restart the server with winodws 2008 r2 installation disk. There are 16,614 folders in there and i have the cleanup kb installed it reports zero bytes of service pack backup files to be cleaned. Heres a post on how to worked around the windows update issue. For more information, see dism operating system package servicing commandline options use the startcomponentcleanup parameter. If you are using windows vista 7 or 8 you have this folder on your machine. I cant find anything directly from microsoft addressing this issue. How to analyze component store winsxs folder in windows 10 one commonly asked question is can i delete the winsxs folder to regain some disk space. Use disk cleanup to reclaim space from winsxs folder in 2008. Deleting files from the windows sidebyside winsxs folder is a bad idea. Windows vista service pack 2 or windows server 2008 service pack 2.
It always has 2 or 3 mb after a restart and rescan. The c drives on a few of the servers i support are almost full. Click the download link in the following table that corresponds to the version of windows that is running on your computer. Why does the winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made. Its a part of the move to a component based architecture, where the winsxs folder contains multiple versions of a component such as windows media player or iis, and the appropriate versions are hardlinked into the system. Vista sp1 wont install if the winsxs dir is moved, but if you move the winsxs folder on vista that already has sp1, it will blue screen as there is a direct link to the winsxs dir as well. Winsxs folder is the component store of windows vista and later operating systems. With windows 7 sp1, we had the dism command for removing the pre sp1 winsxs repository files which for some people, depending on updates you had installed could save gigabytes of disk, so this update to clean up post sp1 updates is really welcome. Fix windows update errors by using the dism or system. Check the windows update cleanup checkbox and click ok. Have you tried all the other means to free up space on the hard drive. At disk cleanup window, click clean up system files.
How to cleanup system disk in windows 7 sp1 by deprecated. I can see it scan for wu files, but i guess if there are none to be cleaned, one sees what the. Reduce the size of vistas winsxs folder andrew berry. How to clean up winsxs folder on sbs 2011 or windows 2008. What is the winsxs directory in windows 2008 and windows vista and why. Winsxs folder size increased to 60 gb windows server. Sp1 addresses specific reliability and performance issues, supports new types of hardware, and adds support for several emerging standards. It is a folder that is present in all the versions of windows viz.
The article linked above applies to windows server 2008 r2win7 and later, but for server 2008 vista the options are much more limited. Msu is installed, the components get updated, each and every one, instead of the files and the worst part is it still maintains the older superseded previous versions of components in winsxs so the user would be able to uninstall updates. Click here to fix windows errors and optimize system performance microsoft has released a new update for windows 7 sp1 that adds a new option to the builtin disk cleanup tool, allowing users to clean and delete obsolete windows updates to get this update, you can download it from the links at the end of this article or install it via your windows update. Using one of the cleanup winsxs scripts around is not an option for me, they all look too shady. How to reduce winsxs folder size in windows 1087 os. Windows update cant install windows vista sp1 super user. They are all windows server 2008 but some are sp1 and others are sp2. My winsxs folder is at 103gb and have tried some of the methods from the internet, but now unable to even upgrade to windows 7 due to not having enough space in c. Disk cleanup wizard addon lets users delete outdated. Important when you run this command, dism uses windows update to provide the files that are required to fix corruptions. Ever since the release of windows vista, microsoft began storing windows updates in a folder named winsxs.
Microsoft planning to automate winsxs cleanup in windows 8. Install hotfix 2852386 you can either download manually, or wait for it to come. Just like cleaning up after sp1, you can use the service pack cleanup tool compcln. Want to reduce winsxs folder size posted in windows 7. The disk cleanup wizard removes the update files that pile up in the winsxs folder on windows systems. How to reclaim space after applying windows 72008 r2. Windows vista service pack 1 is an update to windows vista that addresses key feedback from our customers. New windows 7 feature in kb 2852386 reclaims wasted space. Winsxs cleanup tool available for windows server 2008 r2.
Undoubtedly youve come across the winsxs folder in windows and wondered if its possible to reclaim the space used. After several restarts, rescans and cleanups, the disk cleanup utility no longer offers an entry for windows update cleanup. However the cleanup tool has to be invoked manually, at. B the new featuresetting only works on windows 7 sp1 machines.
Basically, it removes all the older files, but makes the service pack unremovable. So this is the component store on a 3 year old 2008 r2 sp1 server, and. If you have vista and have sp2 installed, you can clean up old system files with. There are now options to cleanup service pack backup files and windows update cleanup. It is highly advised to create a system backup before running winsxslite, considering that the software makes irreversible changes to the windows system partition that can only be undone by a backup.
You can try this and your case may be different, just make a ghost or backup of your machine first. Clean up winsxs on windows 2008 r2 after sp1 install. Server 2008, but they are also available through windows update. Winsxs folder exists in windows vista 7 8 and 10 and in the previous versions, this folder was known as the dllcache folder. Cleanup the winsxs folder in windows 7810 help desk geek. Winsxs folder in windows server 2008 sp2 spiceworks. To housekeep your hard disk and clean up those old and unused sp1 backup files, users probably can try the new service pack cleanup tool which is also named as compcln. The winsxs folder is the only location that the core system components found on the system and all the system files you see in their usual locations, in the windows directory structure, are hard linked back to the winsxs folder. Consequently, this wizard can free up gigabytes worth of space on servers by deleting a cache. How to cleanup the winsxs folder on windows 7 sp1 windows 2008 windows 2008 r2 sp1 the winsxs folder in c. I have had my windows 7 64bit installation for a while now, and i have a problem, that is the winsxs folder is taking up. We have talked in length about the winsxs folder back in 2010 and how it comes up regularly as one of the largest folder on the computer when storage is analyzed using tools like wiztree windows explorer and thirdparty programs report a size of several gigabyte at the very least, but the count can go up to ten and more gigabytes depending on the system it is analyzed on. The %windir%\softwaredistribution\downloads folder is used by windows update to store downloaded updates.
What im left with is an installation of windows 7 sp1 and subsequent security updates that is well more than double the data size of the original, fresh, pre sp1 windows 7 installation. If you dont see the windows update cleanup option, then download and install the update kb2852386 from the link below. I was told to be very carefull with this folder because deleting the wrong files could mess up the server. Find out if your computer is running the 32 or 64bit version of windows this tool is updated regularly, we recommend that you always download the latest version. Windows os stores all its core components to winsxs directory. Add the windows update cleanup option to the hard disk. Server 2008 sp2 64bit winsxs cleanup solutions experts. However when i did a search on my computer to see where svchost shows up, it indicated 2 found in the winsxs folder. Today while doing some regular maintenance tasks on my windows 10 pc, i found a weird issue.
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