Does XP have a WinSxS directory?

[Academia]

Does XP have a WinSxS directory?

I can't find it.





thanks

 

[Claymore]

Does XP have a WinSxS directory?

I can't find it.

thanks

Hello Academia,

Mine is in the Windows folder.

Go to Start => Run and type in (or copy/paste):
%systemroot%\WinSXS
{no spaces}

 

[Academia]

So is mine. I must have looked right at it and didn't see it.

It contains things like amd64... which I'm quite sure I won't use on my
Intel 32 bit machine!

I was just wondering what was in it.

Thanks

Does XP have a WinSxS directory?

I can't find it.

thanks

Hello Academia,

Mine is in the Windows folder.

Go to Start => Run and type in (or copy/paste):
%systemroot%\WinSXS
{no spaces}

 

[Academia]

There's a bunch of folders containing the common control's dll.

I wonder how the OS decides which one to use.


Thanks

Does XP have a WinSxS directory?

I can't find it.

thanks

Hello Academia,

Mine is in the Windows folder.

Go to Start => Run and type in (or copy/paste):
%systemroot%\WinSXS
{no spaces}

 

[Claymore]

There's a bunch of folders containing the common control's dll.

I wonder how the OS decides which one to use.

Thanks






Hello Academia,

Mine is in the Windows folder.

Go to Start => Run and type in (or copy/paste):
%systemroot%\WinSXS
{no spaces}

Hello again,

Here's the short version of Side-by-Side:

Sxs stands for side by side versioning. This was an feature first
introduced, oddly enough, in Windows ME and of course improved in XP.
It
was Microsoft's solution to the "DLL Hell" issue that plagued Win 9x
and
provided a way to support multiple versions of same named DLLs.
Windows
would recognize a potential conflict and place an incoming DLL in the
Winsxs
tree rather than overwriting it elsewhere, would store applicable
registry
data, etc.

In Vista the use of Winsxs seems to have changed and been greatly
expanded.
Vista includes the Net Framework as a core technology (i.e. and not as
an
add in). Many of the files under Winsxs are related to the use of
managed
code -headers, manifests, etc. Also, I concur with your thought that
this
replaces the I386 folder. It seems to be a repository for installation
files as well as Dlls etc.

Here's the full-meal-deal that should answer your particular question:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374224.aspx

Cheers!

 

[Academia]

thanks for the info

There's a bunch of folders containing the common control's dll.

I wonder how the OS decides which one to use.

Thanks






Hello Academia,

Mine is in the Windows folder.

Go to Start => Run and type in (or copy/paste):
%systemroot%\WinSXS
{no spaces}

Hello again,

Here's the short version of Side-by-Side:

Sxs stands for side by side versioning. This was an feature first
introduced, oddly enough, in Windows ME and of course improved in XP.
It
was Microsoft's solution to the "DLL Hell" issue that plagued Win 9x
and
provided a way to support multiple versions of same named DLLs.
Windows
would recognize a potential conflict and place an incoming DLL in the
Winsxs
tree rather than overwriting it elsewhere, would store applicable
registry
data, etc.

In Vista the use of Winsxs seems to have changed and been greatly
expanded.
Vista includes the Net Framework as a core technology (i.e. and not as
an
add in). Many of the files under Winsxs are related to the use of
managed
code -headers, manifests, etc. Also, I concur with your thought that
this
replaces the I386 folder. It seems to be a repository for installation
files as well as Dlls etc.

Here's the full-meal-deal that should answer your particular question:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374224.aspx

Cheers!