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Since Windows Server 2012 Microsoft have made it very easy to tidy the WinSxS folder up.

Each time you run a windows update files in the WinSxS folder get update and the size will continue to grow. The WinSxS folder contains the files for all the Windows Features you can install in the default operating system. So i was asked to take a look and see what i could do to make a bit of room. In this post we’ll look at how to use PowerShell to reduce the size of the WinSxS folder in Windows Server 2012 R2.Ī customer has a very quick SSD based server at a cloud provider, but although it is SSD based it only has a tiny 40GB C:, which is a very small footprint for the OS, a couple of apps and logs files.