Not so long ago, most home PCs were equipped with hard drives, the volumes of which were extremely far from epic. In particular, it was often possible to meet a car with a 30 GB hard drive, or even less.
Of course, at that time the struggle was going on for almost every free megabyte on the hard drive. Years passed, the size of data carriers gradually grew. Today, it is no longer a rarity for a home PC with one or two terabytes on board, and therefore it almost does not bother users about the lack of free space.WinSxS folder
However, this does not apply to all users. For example, WinSxS cleaning is haunting some of them. What is this abbreviation? This is the name of the system folder, whose sizes often cause discussions in computer forums.
, . , !
, «-» . , , WinSxS.
?
, : C:\Windows\winsxs. Windows , .
?
, . .
, , , . , , , . - «» .
We’ll immediately warn especially enterprising citizens: do not turn on the mode of displaying hidden files, and then manually delete all contents from the folder. Yes, you really guess a fraction of the free space, but only your joy will be very short-lived. The system will quickly respond to such bullying, and therefore very soon all work on the computer will be overshadowed by constant crashes and crashes to the blue screen.
There are several safe ways in which WinSxS cleanup can be performed completely without consequences. In this article we will consider them.Windows 7
Until recently, Microsoft OS users could not even imagine that many important functions would finally be implemented directly into the system. Everything changed after the appearance of the set of "patches" SP1 on the "seven".
, 8 2013 , Microsoft KB2852386, . , .
. « ». , «», «» .
Below is the "Disk Cleanup" button, which you should click. A utility window will start up, which will take some time to analyze the amount of disk space that can be freed up after all operations are completed. Another dialog box will open to familiarize you with the results of these analyzes.
You should be interested in the “Clear system files” button, which is located just below the list of all system resources that can be cleared. Click on it, confirm your actions by clicking on “OK” in the UAC window that appears.The analysis starts again, after which another window appears again. In it, you can finally click on the "OK" button, after which WinSxS cleaning will be completed.
Another way
, , . ?
«», «». CMD, . , « » .
?
, . cleanmgr, Enter. WinSxS, , «OK». , .
, « Windows». , «OK». WinSxS. Windows 7 , .
« » , . , .
Windows 8/8.1,
, «» , . , , Microsoft WinSxS. Windows 8 , .
«» . WinSxS, Windows 7 - . , .
We have already described this technology in detail above. When you see the terminal window, you should copy the following line into it: schtasks / Create / TN CleanupWinSxS / RL Highest / SC monthly / TR "cleanmgr / sagerun: 88". After that, you can press Enter.
From now on, in the first days of each month, the folder will be automatically cleaned from any garbage. If you want to adjust the execution time, click on the "Start" button, find the "Run" field there, and then enter the taskschd.msc command there.The "Windows Task Scheduler" opens, in which you can adjust all the necessary indicators for deleting old files from WinSxS. Cleaning up Windows 8 / 8.1 is not needed! Once again, we remind you that irrelevant updates are automatically deleted from there.
So how justified is this purification?
- , – , . . WinSxS. Windows 7 , , - .
, . ? . «» , .
, , - , , . , . , Microsoft, .
. , , .
WinSxS ( Windows 2008 ) , , , «» .
, Microsoft , , .
, Microsoft. .