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It's probably not really 20GB. Most of what's in WinSxS is links to files in other directories, often multiple links to the same file, and the Windows shell "Pr
by contextfree 16y ago
It's probably not really 20GB. Most of what's in WinSxS is links to files in other directories, often multiple links to the same file, and the Windows shell "Properties" dialog will include every "copy" when calculating total size.
- malkia 16y agoI checked it up again: dir c:\windows\winsxs\amd64* accounts for 10829 directories dir c:\windows\winsxs\x86* accounts for 6163 directories Total 16gb. So I was wrong, 20GB came from the artist machine I was inspecting the problem. On mine is 16GB In total here is what I have: C:\Windows\winsxs>cmd /c dir /s | tail Directory of C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_wwf-system.workflow.runtime_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6002.18005_none_670656a59d28c52a 06/03/2009 03:34 PM <DIR> . 06/03/2009 03:34 PM <DIR> .. 02/18/2009 11:39 AM 540,672 System.Workflow.Runtime.dll 1 File(s) 540,672 bytes Total Files Listed: 70492 File(s) 17,392,399,667 bytes 54416 Dir(s) 3,145,158,656 bytes free