Throw away "clam meat" to make Microsoft Windows 7 faster

  

Careful netizens can find that in the Windows directory of Vista and Windows 7 system disk, there is a folder named winsxs, for the entire Windows directory This folder takes up more than half of its volume (nearly 3GB).
Not only that, as the system usage time continues to increase, the size of the winsxs folder will become larger, and I have more 4G now, this is really a piece of "赘肉", 呀!
For the system For those who are not very wealthy, this piece of music will slow down the system.
If it’s just for this reason, re-partitioning the hard drive to make the system disk space bigger, and then reinstalling the system, it’s too much trouble. It’s too much trouble!
In fact, we can Winsxs is a piece of meat that is thrown into other hard disk partitions to make room for the system disk to make the system run faster.
The following, take Windows 7 as an example, to introduce you to the specific steps:
Tips:
The role of winsxs folder
winsxs is a very important Windows directory of Vista/Windows 7. The folder, there are many important components in the folder, the version is also very complicated, in order to ensure the normal operation of Windows, the files inside can not be deleted, these folders support mscorwks.dll, without them mscorwks can not be loaded. If you forcefully delete it, you may only be able to enter Windows in safe mode, and Windows will also hang up.
Step 1: Establish a link.
First download “PendMoves and MoveFile”, then extract the downloaded ZIP format compression package named "PendMoves" to the directory of "X:\\Windows\\System32"; (X is the system disk, the same below); Then click the menu "Start & mdash; Run", then go to Cmd in the pop-up "Run" dialog box and press the "Ctrl+Shift+Enter" shortcut to run Cmd as administrator and open &ldquo ; command prompt & rdquo; window; the last two cursors in the window to execute the following two commands (each input a command must press the Enter key, the same below)
cd \\windows
mklink /X winsxs.link Winsxs.moved
Tips:
DOS Commands“mklink /X winsxs.link The meaning of winsxs.moved” is to create a link to winsxs.moved called winsxs.link.
Step 2: Get full control over the winsxs folder.
Double-click the “& computer” icon on the desktop, and then navigate to the “X:\\Windows” directory; then right click on the ““winsxs” folder in the directory and select “properties” to open the winsxs property. The "Security" tab of the dialog box and click the "Advanced" button on the tab, then switch to "Owner" in the new pop-up "Winsxs Advanced Security Settings" dialog box. Tab and click the "Edit" button on the tab; then select the “Administrators” option in the pop-up dialog box and check the "Replace sub-container and object owner" checkbox, last single Click the “OK” button.
Step 3: Rename and copy files.
After executing the two DOS commands in the first step, the following two commands are executed at the "Command Prompt" window cursor:
movefile X:\\Windows\\winsxs X:\\Windows \\winsxs.moved
movefile X:\\Windows\\winsxs.link X:\\Windows\\winsxs
Tips:
The meaning of these two DOS commands is: Will be in the directory of X:\\Windows” Rename the folder "winsxs" to "ldsxs.moved" and rename "“winsxs.link" in the "X:\\Windows" directory to winsxs.
After completing the renaming of folders and files, restart the system, and then copy all the contents of the “winsxs.moved” folder under the directory of "X:\\Windows" to a file other than the system disk. In the hard disk partition, click the "Windows\\winsxs" directory (for example, "D:\\Windows\\winsxs").
Step 4: Establish associations and delete the folder "winsxs.moved". Run Cmd again as an administrator, and then execute the following three commands at the cursor:
cd \\windows
rmdir winsxs
mklink /X winsxs D:\\windows\\winsxs
After two DOS The meaning of the command is: delete the link named "ldsxs" in the directory of "X:\\Windows", and then create a new link with the same name, pointing to the directory "D:\\windows\\winsxs“".
Complete the creation of a new link to winsxs pointing to the directory "D:\\windows\\winsxs"; then restart the system, and finally the name "winsxs.moved" in the directory "X:\\Windows" The folder can be deleted.
Throwing the “赘肉”winsxs folder to a different partition than the system disk, thus freeing up more unused space for the system disk, Windows 7 can run faster, which is of course a matter of course. A friend who needs this may wish to give it a try.
If you accidentally delete winsxs, you can restore it like this. Take a system disk and type sfc /scannow in the Start Run field to fix it.

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