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How to clean the winsxs folder?
Published : 2014-03-06.
Last updated : 2017-05-02.
Noticed the disk size of the folder c:\windows\winsxs\ and want to reduce its size?
Open an administrative command prompt and enter the command:
dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded
The program starts and shows its progress as shown in the next image:
Clean up winsxs folder using command dism.
Disk size examples:
Example:Size of the winsxs folder before cleaning.
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Example:Size of the winsxs folder after cleaning.
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