Winxs: Why my Vista install bloated to 28GB
Posted on 24th Jul 2009 at 12:46 by Clive Webster with 30 comments
For some reason the C: partition of my media PC is pretty much full, despite me giving the OS 30GB and only having a few apps installed. The culprit is the mysterious winsxs folder, which has piled on the pounds in the year or so the PC has been working, and now weighs in at 15GB. Things is, I had no idea what the folder was when trying to trim some space last night.
