Winsxs

[ShivP]

Hi all

I am having problems cleaning up a PC. The SSD is 256gb and has about 1MB remaining space, and the programs list is very small. The only exceedingly large folder I can find is the C:\Windows folder which is 65GB. There is a "winsxs" folder which I can't seem to cleanup using disk cleanup which is huge at 15.0GB. I have tried to search online but they all recommend disk cleanup which doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[ShivP]

Thats not outrageously sized to be honest.
Run dirspace through your drive to find whats using the space
http://www.freshsoftware.com/dirspace/

But windows does get big, what with all its updates and stuff. Also any games you have will be taking up lots of space.

Can't run it as there isn't enough disk space!

Games are not an issue it's a computer at my dad's office so only has MS office, couple of accountancy software packages <2GB and chrome and drivers

 

[ShivP]

First link on google tells how to do it via cmd.

Gives an error. "An error occurred accessing the temporary folder xxx"
Ensure that the path to the temporary folder exists and that you have Read/Write permissions on the folder

 

[ShivP]

Use calcs to set permissions to folder.

Calcs?

 

[ShivP]

It's windows 7 64bit sorry forget to mention. Latest update yeah

open an elevated command prompt (right click on the command prompt entry in the start menu and select open as administrator)
type chkdsk /f /r

It will want you to reboot to do the work, let it and then it will want to do a scandisk before windows starts - let it.
Once done see if its found any corruption, see if that helps.

If not then delete your internet cache which will free up a lot of space and use dirspace to find the rest.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process.