Thursday, December 12, 2019

windows 7 - Huge amount of "amd64_" files in winsxs 8.93GB, what are they?


I have a huge amount of folders under my "C:/Windows/winsxs" folder that all start with amd64_. They have sub headings ranging from "wpf" to "security" even to "netflix". The entire size of the files is 8.93.GB. What are theses? What created them? Can I delete them all?


enter image description here


Answer



AMD64 is the codename for the 64Bit Version of Windows because AMD created the first 64Bit architecture with their AMD K8 (Athlon64/Opteron) which was still compatible to the existing 32Bit Windows.


So all AMD64 files you see are 64Bit files. No you can't delete them. You can only safely cleanup WinSxS by running disk cleanup after installing Update KB2852386 to remove Updates which are replaced by newer ones.


-

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

hard drive - Leaving bad sectors in unformatted partition?

Laptop was acting really weird, and copy and seek times were really slow, so I decided to scan the hard drive surface. I have a couple hundr...