Why is my system size growing?

Thanks for the link. I learnt something new today.

Fascinating - this side-by-side concept. I can see the logic about it and
checked out my WinXP machine where the WinSxS folder is about 13.4 MB.

I'm still trying to find out why this folder is so big on my Vista install
and why it is growing bigger!

Regards and thanks again.

SafeHex
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"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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> It is a Windows side by side (SxS) folder. I found some refernces to it
> by searching microsoft.com on "winsxs." For example (but see others
> also), this article:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235624.aspx
>
> "SafeHex" <safehex@nospam.safe> wrote in message
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>> My system size is growing almost every time I boot! It is now over 12GB.
>>
>> What is the c:\windows\winsxs folder for? That holds about half of this
>> amount.
>>
>> Boot time has also increased from around 110 seconds to over 130 seconds
>> now!
>>
>> Otherwise Vista is working just dandy.
>>
>> Regards and thanks.
>>
>> SafeHex
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>>
>>
>>

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On 2006-06-26 19:57, SafeHex wrote:

> Thanks for the link. I learnt something new today.
>
> Fascinating - this side-by-side concept. I can see the logic about it and
> checked out my WinXP machine where the WinSxS folder is about 13.4 MB.
>
> I'm still trying to find out why this folder is so big on my Vista install
> and why it is growing bigger!

One reason for it being so big is the debug-code in the files, many of
them will become smaller with the final version. As to why it's growing
I can not say.

--
Erik Wikström

Caches grow with usage.

"Erik Wikström" <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com> wrote in message
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> On 2006-06-26 19:57, SafeHex wrote:

>> Thanks for the link. I learnt something new today.
>>
>> Fascinating - this side-by-side concept. I can see the logic about it and
>> checked out my WinXP machine where the WinSxS folder is about 13.4 MB.
>>
>> I'm still trying to find out why this folder is so big on my Vista
>> install
>> and why it is growing bigger!

>
> One reason for it being so big is the debug-code in the files, many of
> them will become smaller with the final version. As to why it's growing I
> can not say.
>
> --
> Erik Wikström