{"id":125,"date":"2012-04-10T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2012-04-10T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:08:00","slug":"today-i-learned-howto-trim-winsxs-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/today-i-learned-howto-trim-winsxs-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I learned: HOWTO trim WinSXS size"},"content":{"rendered":"

The C:\\Windows\\WinSXS directory can get way too big for comfort. On my Win2k8 VMWare image it was 10.9 gigs. On a VMWare image that’s just wasted space. After a little research I settled on a few steps to help me trim the fat down to 6.72 GB:<\/p>\n

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  1. Issued the command: dism \/online \/cleanup-image \/spsuperseded<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0Install and run CCleaner<\/li>\n
  3. Delete all the files in C:\\windows\\winsxs\\Backup<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I also experimented with WinSxs Lite — but it was taking too long for me to be able to see what a difference it makes. I’ll leave it running overnight at some point and report back. By the way, you’d be crazy to try using WinSxSLite on a real machine. I’m doing it because if it hoses my VMWare I restore with the press of a single button.<\/div>\n
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    The C:\\Windows\\WinSXS directory can get way too big for comfort. On my Win2k8 VMWare image it was 10.9 gigs. On a VMWare image that’s just wasted space. After a little research I settled on a few steps to help me trim the fat down to 6.72 GB: Issued the command: dism \/online \/cleanup-image \/spsuperseded \u00a0Install […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.angelmarquez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}