Why is my system size growing?

[SafeHex]

My system size is growing almost every time I boot! It is now over 12GB.

What is the c:\windows\winsxs folder for? That holds about half of this
amount.

Boot time has also increased from around 110 seconds to over 130 seconds
now!

Otherwise Vista is working just dandy.

Regards and thanks.

SafeHex
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[Colin Barnhorst]

It is a Windows side by side (SxS) folder. I found some refernces to it by
searching microsoft.com on "winsxs." For example (but see others also),
this article:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235624.aspx

 

[SafeHex]

Thanks for the link. I learnt something new today.

Fascinating - this side-by-side concept. I can see the logic about it and
checked out my WinXP machine where the WinSxS folder is about 13.4 MB.

I'm still trying to find out why this folder is so big on my Vista install
and why it is growing bigger!

Regards and thanks again.

SafeHex

 

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Thanks for the link. I learnt something new today.

Fascinating - this side-by-side concept. I can see the logic about it and
checked out my WinXP machine where the WinSxS folder is about 13.4 MB.

I'm still trying to find out why this folder is so big on my Vista install
and why it is growing bigger!

One reason for it being so big is the debug-code in the files, many of
them will become smaller with the final version. As to why it's growing
I can not say.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Caches grow with usage.

One reason for it being so big is the debug-code in the files, many of
them will become smaller with the final version. As to why it's growing I
can not say.