Can Win7 system winsxs folder be deleted?

When viewing the Win7 system disk folder, you will often find some folders that take up a lot of memory. The winsxs folder is like this, and its size often reaches 5G or more. Then the question is, can a folder that takes up a lot of memory be deleted? Today this article will address this issue for everyone to explain.

winsxs is an important directory under the Windows directory, and the files inside are not deleteable. There are many important components in the winsxs folder, and the version is very complicated. In order to ensure the normal operation of Windows, please make sure that none of these files can be used. These files support mscorwks.dll, without them, mscorwks can't load. After forcibly deleting, you may only be able to enter Windows in safe mode, and Windows will be abolished.

If this is not enough to understand you, then the following is a description of the winsxs about Microsoft, and you can understand after reading winsxs in the end can not be deleted:

Support COM and Shared DLL Isolation

Windows XP/Vista provides a folder called " winsxs" (Windows Side-by-Side) in the "Windows" directory. The system uses this folder to store various versions of Windows XP components, reducing configuration problems (DLL hell) caused by Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs). Multiple versions of the component are stored in this folder. Windows XP allows Win32? API components and applications use versions of Microsoft components that are identical to the versions used by these programs at the time of testing, and are not affected by other programs or operating system upgrades. Windows XP does this through XML files that hold metadata about application configuration, such as COM classes, interfaces, and type libraries.

The role of winsxs folder

winsxs is a very important folder in the Windows directory of VISTA/Windows 7, there are many important components in this folder, the version is very complicated, in order to To ensure the normal operation of Windows, the files inside are not removable. These folders support mscorwks.dll and cannot be loaded without them nmscorwks. If you force the deletion, you may only be able to enter Windows in safe mode, and Windows will also hang up.

After reading the above, we have already understood the importance of the winsxs folder, so for those who want to slim down the system must pay attention, the files under the winsxs folder should try not to delete, because delete This will cause problems in system operation.