How To Clean Winsxs Folder In Windows Server 2012 R2
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If you have desktop experience installed run disk cleanup and so click cleanup system files, this volition do it for you, or at that place is choice ii
using dism
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dn251565.aspx
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The download worked for me past the mode
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Ccleaner maybe? I'd leave that winsxs folder lonely.
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Ccleaner maybe? I'd exit that winsxs binder alone.
Meet the link I posted, DISM will do information technology for you, as volition deejay cleanup but for newer servers OSes the 'desktop feel' feature needs to be installed.
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I am looking at the link Rod-It posted and it says that using DISM is for windows 8.i and later.
I am also trying to open up the start component cleanup only when I get to the "windows" category in task scheduler at that place is no category for servicing i practice non see the category for servicing
control panel/System and Maintenance/Administrative tools/Job Scheduler/ Microsoft/Windows/Servicing?
I may need to install desktop experience
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Lamentable it took WAY also long to go back but I call up I have a fix but I wanted to runit by the forum starting time.
A few of you mentioned that DISM should work to gear up the size of the winsxs folder.
the command I constitute online is
DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /spsuperseded
I wanted to know if anyone has tried this before I go ahead and execute this command
I have heard that the winsxs folder is very important and I don't want to foul annihilation upwardly anymore than I accept already.
Thanks Guys
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That command works fine, information technology only cleans upward service pack information though
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The bulldoze in question is but 40Gbs and just has about 4.33 Gb of free space.
The winsxs folder is 14 Gb
Do you think I will encounter whatever major difference
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run information technology and find out. Worst case is, no.
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later I run the command the output says
"Service Pack Cleanup cant't proceed: No service pack backup files were establish. The functioning Completed successfully"
I saw no changes to the size of the the folder
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As I would expect you lot not to, service packs are rare these days and in one case applied are ordinarily from pre-bundled media.
There isn't much else you can do without compressing the folder.
Add more space?
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Nah that'southward a picayune above my skillset right now. Its a pretty old server that should have been replaced a few years ago,
mayhap thats why they let the newb handle it.
I have about 4 servers that I am currently trying to find infinite for, the control seems to be working on one right now and two of them displayed the output I just mentioned upward top.
another displayed the output "DISM.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"
I have another command that might work DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /SpSuperseded
What do y'all think should I effort it
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That's the same command as above, it only cleans upwardly sometime service pack data
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You lot're right
thought if I left the .exe off information technology would make a difference.
On the bright side, ane of the servers now has 25 Gb's of free space. and that'south an comeback.
Cheers you lot soo much for all your help I will endeavor to ask i of the other techs at work if they take any other suggestions and I will continue to plug away.
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c:\windows\temp tin exist emptied
c:\inetpub\logs if one exists
c:\windows\logs
There are many folders but depends on the servers role
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the server I am currently working on os running
Active Directory,DHCP,DNS and File services
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I jus tsaw an article http://blog.willbeattie.net/2013/06/freeing-deejay-space-on-c-windows-server.html
what do you recall virtually deleting the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution
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I would shrink the binder earlier you delete anything or expand the space.
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I also found this
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Information\Applications\Windows
that would free up about 2.five Gbs.
I take no idea what this file is
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