{"id":3608,"date":"2025-05-13T18:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:49:57","slug":"windows-directory-large-winsxs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3608","title":{"rendered":"Windows Directory large WinSxs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><code>Dism.exe \/Online \/Cleanup-Image \/AnalyzeComponentStore<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this will ask you to reboot if it cleans up some backups<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dism.exe \/Online \/Cleanup-Image \/StartComponentCleanup \/ResetBase<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The above will remove all previous versions of updates that were kept so you can roll back. you won&#8217;t be able to rollback after this command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More info here  <a href=\"https:\/\/woshub.com\/how-to-clean-up-and-compress-winsxs-folder-in-windows-8\/\">https:\/\/woshub.com\/how-to-clean-up-and-compress-winsxs-folder-in-windows-8\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c:\\windows\\installer dir is &gt;20gb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>download patchCleaner here  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homedev.com.au\/Free\/PatchCleaner\">https:\/\/www.homedev.com.au\/Free\/PatchCleaner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it finds the orphaned files and lets you back them up to an external drive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dism.exe \/Online \/Cleanup-Image \/AnalyzeComponentStore this will ask you to reboot if it cleans up some backups Dism.exe \/Online \/Cleanup-Image \/StartComponentCleanup \/ResetBase The above will remove all previous versions of updates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-3608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3627,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}