how to fix box drive from resizing the windows explorer

In simple terms a file has two parts the data and an index entry in one or more directories (folder) – normally only one. It’s because most of the ‘files’ you think are “stored in” winsxs are also “stored elsewhere”. This is another one of those old chestnuts the squirrels forgot to bury 😆 Oh dear, I hoped no one would notice – here we go – yet again ❗ Obviously I missing a step or don’t understand something. (The free space doesn’t show as increased at all after running WinSxS and after shrinking the size of my WinSxS file from 24.4 GB to 9.64 GB). My question is why does my C drive not show any more available space after this process? It still shows 18.5 GB free of 59.6 GB on a 64 GB SSD on my Asus EP-121. I rebooted and made sure that my recycle bin is empty. I followed your instructions and my WinSxS decreased from 24.4 GB to 9.64 GB in size (a gain of 14.76 GB!). I have a 40G disk, on it I have a single 5G file with a link in each of 12 directories.So the 40G disk appears to have 60G of data on it, but the disk reports 35G Free!! I use it to teach the basics of how file systems work.

I’m not saying that the cleanup wont save any space, it will, but not as much as you might think.

When asked why, they (or their fankids) usually blame Microsoft :rolleyes: If I can see the data on a properties sheet, then so could their programs :p The people who write programs like Windirstat ignore the fact that the same data can have multiple links (up to 1024). I use a red arrow like the one on shortcuts. Its worth having one of them for that feature alone. There are free gadgets that display an overlay icon on files with multiple links, Link Shell Extension is one, NTFS Link is another. The x2plorer program does have it as a column, but it may only be available in the payware version. The count for the javascript file was 2ĭeleting the link from the winsxs subfolder will free up some space within the MFT (which is of a FIXED size anyway), but it wont free up the space used by the picturePuzzle javascript code, because it is still referenced in the Gadgets subfolder !!ĪFAIK Windows Explorer doesn’t have Reference Count as an available column.

In there you’ll see a reference count – and under that there will list of the links. If you look at the Properties of a file that has multiple links you’ll see an additional sheet – Link Properties It’s not a copy, or a mirrored replicant, it is the same bytes on the same sectors of the same disk 😉 Many of the files in WinSxS have multiple links – eg this javascript fileĬ:Windowswinsxsx86_31bf3856ad364e35_.16385_en-us_a6285ac2a45ae884picturePuzzle.jsĬ:Program Files (x86)Windows

How to fix box drive from resizing the windows explorer