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Microsoft Windows 7 winsxs directory is huge, how to clean up.

I have been running a Microsoft Windows 7 desktop since 2009, in that time and many Microsoft updates later, the C:\windows\winsxs directory has grown to a significant size in proportion to the rest of the hard drive. There is a way to clean this up. Here are screenshots of the before and after cleanup attempt. Note the savings of 4.8…

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