Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller?

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05:39 Answer 2 (Score 106)
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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1/why-do...

Question links:
[TreeSize]: http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_fre.../
[explained pretty well here]: http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive...
[complaining about the size of the /winsxs folder, too]: http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/...
[It doesn't seem that it can be]: http://blogs.msdn.com/jonwis/archive/200...

Accepted answer links:
[there is finally a way to do this]: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archi...

Answer 3 links:
[hard links]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link
[says here]: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Foru...

Answer 4 links:
["Compress contents to save disk space"]: https://web.archive.org/web/200907240014...

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#windows #diskspace #winsxs

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