Winsxslite Windows 7
Decrease of the size of folder Winsxs in Windows 7 or how to use WinsxsLite. I think that in it there is no necessity, but just in case 7) (Picture 5). I launch WinsxsLite.bat and I select [2] and [s]. There is a scanning process (much faster than in the first phase, minutes 10-15).
I'm searching for solutions for reducing the winsxs stuff. First, I'm not a layman so I don't need an umpteenth reiteration, that I shouldn't delete anything because they're backups and variants of dlls.
I simply don't need it. I pretty much use the same programs for the most part and I can solve a plain dll problem if needed, I don't need old variants of my unproblematically functioning graphic driver etc.
Actually I prefer having portable variants of programs that have anything they need. Dll hell is heaven compared to winsxs hell. So basically what I want is: 1. Firstly to remove backups, duplicates of all sorts.
So basically I need something to identify these compared to things that are actually used and remove them. It wouldn't hurt if I could do it selectively, but I'm not diehard for this. A windows (registry) setting, hack, patch would be also nice to stop windows from doing what it does the way it does, but behave like XP with which I never had problems with. I don't have high hopes for this, but who knows, maybe someone did this.
All ideas are welcome for cutting down windows's mindless bloat. First, I'm not a layman so I don't need an umpteenth reiteration, that I shouldn't delete anything because they're backups and variants of dlls. I simply don't need it.First, it's.NOT. backups of anything.
Yes, it does handle dll versioning. Second, Yes, you do need it. Without it, Window won't function. The entire OS depends on it, and will break otherwise. As such, since the OS won't work without it, you DO need it. Third, WinSxS doesn't take up anywhere near the space it seems.
Many of those files are hard links to the same file. As such, many of the copies are actually taking up a single instance of disk space.
Winsxslite Windows 7 64
I know you are smart enough to make an image before trying. It's an interesting question. I build pe as a bit of fun.
I have quite a few things in there - explorer - themes, sound, IE, flash, MMC stuff like diskmgmt, devmgmt, wireles networking, etc. It is nowhere near the full os of course. I don't need much in winsxs for that - 5mb does it for 32 bit pe. To get 3rd party programs to run properly, I add some vc80 and vc90 stuff. Will be interested to know how you get on with that. You will probably find dumping the contents of winsxs backup doesn't seem to do any harm. It might affect uninstalling updates.
There was a thing originally for Vista which seemed to work well - winsxslite. It removed unnneeded files and hard linked to the newest versions. I know you are smart enough to make an image before trying. It's an interesting question. I build pe as a bit of fun.
I have quite a few things in there - explorer - themes, sound, IE, flash, MMC stuff like diskmgmt, devmgmt, wireles networking, etc. It is nowhere near the full os of course. I don't need much in winsxs for that - 5mb does it for 32 bit pe. To get 3rd party programs to run properly, I add some vc80 and vc90 stuff.
Will be interested to know how you get on with that. You will probably find dumping the contents of winsxs backup doesn't seem to do any harm. It might affect uninstalling updates. There was a thing originally for Vista which seemed to work well - winsxslite.
It removed unnneeded files and hard linked to the newest versions.Hi! Can you link a guide for buildeng a PE. If you want a small windows footprint, uninstall as many actual programs and windows features as you can and don't install anything else. Get rid of the hyberfil file by disabling hybernate or moving it to another drive, that'll save you as much space on your root drive as you have ram. Every DLL there is either used by windows itself or by a program you installed. If you go deleting entries you WILL break something somewhere in your system.
You may just not know about it for a day or a week or a month till you try to do something special and some crazy error happens and you'll be back here saying 'XXX doesn't work!' And that is a guarantee! Creating a PE can be 'fun' but is probably a huge amount of work for no real purpose as your desktop OS. It's meant to be a small portable USB stick version of windows to be used as an emergency tool, not as your actual desktop.