Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Can I delete the System32 and winsxs folders from Windows?






I want to free some space from C drive... when I checked which folder holding more from Tree size Free tool, I found following location is holding more data? Is it safe to delete those folders?


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Answer



No!


The winsxs folder is used for keeping previous versions of files that are replaced during setups. For example, in previous versions of Windows, if you installed an application that required changing abc.dll, it would just do it. In Windows Vista and 7 it will keep a copy of the original and changed abc.dll and keep a version in winsxs so that each application can keep its own version.


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