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Safely remove files from Windows 7 system folders?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202629353 views
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My Windows folder is 20 GB big. How do I safely detect and remove unnecessary files? Specifically, I'm looking at: , which is 7 GB , which is 4 GB I do not want to buy an external or internal HDD or use a CD as a HDD! Stop to advise that! UPDATE I've found a pretty useful utility, WinsxsLite. It ca…

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You don't want to manually remove entries from those folders. Windows 7 saves it's installer packages (much like a c:\i386 folder on an XP machine) locally so that you don't need to insert the win7 disk when installing updates or running repairs. Al…

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