How to clear down winsxs folder in Windows 7

MS-DOS2If you have found that you have a folder called winsxs that is eating up gigs and gigs of your C drive, then this command line can free up several of those valuable gigs.

 

 

 

 

Using Treesize I found that the Winsxs folder was eating up over 12GB of my 40GB C: drive:

TreeSizeWinSXS

 

The first thing you can try is to run the Disk Cleanup tool on your C: drive (open My Computer, right-click on C and choose Properties):

windowsCleanUp

 

If that hasn’t helped you can run the following command in an elevated command prompt.

To get an elevated command prompt:

  1. click on start, find Command Prompt (or Windows Command Processor as it is named on my PC),
  2. right-click and choose Run as Administrator
dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded /hidesp

This cleared up over 3GB of space for me.

Credit for the command line goes to this blog – http://thetecherra.com/2011/09/22/winsxs/

Posted on April 11, 2013 at 0:40 by simon · Permalink
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  1. Written by phosika
    on 13 February 2014 at 12:12
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    result of using dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded /hidesp

    Service pack cleanup can’t proceed: No Service pack backup files was found.

    the operation completed successfully

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