WinSxS folder stores a large number of system backups and patches, and the files will become larger and larger with use. There are certain risks in cleaning up or deleting. Next, Bian Xiao will introduce how to safely clean up the garbage in the Winsxs folder under the win8. 1 system.

Steps:

Step 1: After entering Windows8. 1 system, press win+r at the same time, enter cmd in the running window of the computer and press Enter to open the command prompt window.

Step 2: In the window, we enter the code Dism.exe/Online/Cleanup-Image/AnalyzeComponentStore, and then click Enter.

Step 3: After the above operations are completed, we can see the size of the WinSxS folder in our computer.

Step 4: After checking the size of the folder, you can start slimming exercise. Return to the cmd run window again and enter the following two sets of commands:

Dism.exe/online/Cleanup-Image/StartComponentCleanup

dism . exe/online/clean up-Image/StartComponentCleanup/reset base

Win8. 1 How much memory does the WinSxS folder occupy now after the system completes the above two operations? Is it much less than before? It shows that this operation successfully cleaned up the redundant garbage in the WinSxS folder.