

To reclaim additional disk space on your system, follow these steps:ġ.Click Start, and then in the Search Programs and Files text box, type Disk cleanup.Ģ.Click the Disk Cleanup icon, and run the Disk Cleanup tool to determine what files you can delete, based on your configuration.Īdditional ways to conserve space on the system volume include the following: WinSxS folder or deleting the entire WinSxS folder may severely damage your system so that your PC might not boot and make it impossible to update.

It is strongly recommended NOT TO delete the files in WinSxS folder because they are hardlinks which are linked to the target folders (C:\Program Files C:\Windows C:\Windows\System32), also are the part of application/system file.Deleting files from the Up >700K however what’s being reported is a hard link to the actual file that lives in the Windows\System32, and it will be counted twice (or more) when simply looking at the individual directories from Windows Explorer. For instance in the WinSxS there might be a file called advapi32.dll that takes In practice, nearly every file in the WinSxS directory is a “hard link” to the physical files elsewhere on the system-meaning that the files are not actually in this directory.

It doesn’t actually consume as much disk space as it appears when using the built-in tools (DIR and Explorer) to measure disk space used. The Windows SxS directory represents the “installation and servicing state” of all system components.
