Once you have downloaded and installed the update it is necessary to install the Desktop Experience feature, either from Server Manager or using Powershell ‘Add-WindowsFeature Desktop-Experience’. We’d better install this update and clean it up. The published system requirements for Windows 2008 required ‘10GB minimum, recommended 40GB+’ disk space, so admins who provisioned thinly ended up with serious storage problems.
So this is the component store on a 3 year old 2008 R2 SP1 server, and the entire C:\Windows actually adds up to over 30GB. The next question was “How can I reduce the size of this folder?” Until recently the answer was basically that you can’t (at least not significantly or easily), but last month Microsoft released update KB2852386, which back-ports Server 2012 component clean-up features. “What is the WINSXS directory in Windows 2008 and Windows Vista and why is it so large?”Ībove is one of the common questions that Sysadmins found themselves asking when they observed WinSXS bloat. One unanticipated result of this was that over the life of the operating system the Windows component store (WinSXS folder) becomes bloated with thousands of updates and obsolete file versions that are no longer in use. Windows 7, 8, 20 all use this component based model. Windows Vista introduced Microsoft’s new ‘component based servicing’ architecture in an effort to make updating and altering the features of the OS more straightforward and put an end to ‘DLL Hell’.
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