The windows side-by-side folder (win.sxs) in my Vista laptop is taking up most of my C drive (more than 22 GB). My laptop is almost useless because of this. I'm constantly getting low memory messages. Can I move it to the D drive or should I remove the partition and just have one huge C drive? I'd consider upgrading to a newer OS, but it seems every time I do that, none of my hardware works anymore because nobody wants to be bothered supporting it in the new OS.
Can I move windows side-by-side folder (win.sxs) to another drive?
- Thread starter Boob123
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- Sep 7, 2013
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The WinSxS folder has to be on the same volume as Windows.
The best and safest option is to reduce it's size. See this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795190
If that is only a temporary solution to your problem or it doesn't free up enough space, you should consider upgrading to a larger capacity hard drive.
The best and safest option is to reduce it's size. See this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795190
If that is only a temporary solution to your problem or it doesn't free up enough space, you should consider upgrading to a larger capacity hard drive.
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