The question is not a duplicate. It's specific for the case of Windows Vista where there's no OS-provided method for reducing the size of the WinSxS folder (as opposed to Windows 7 and later, where there is such a method).
The question asks about a specific manual method of reducing that folder size. This is not addressed on other SU questions.
My Windows\Winsxs folder is currently about 20 GB in size and is full of files which where last accessed years ago.
Some files are hard-linked from some other folder in the system, but most of them have no hard links (hard link count = 1). They just seem to be taking space.
Is it safe to delete the files that have no hard links?
I have no intentions of uninstalling Windows updates, so I don't want to keep old versions of everything.
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