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Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller?
How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?

My dad has asked me to have a look at his computer so see what is wrong it because he keeps running out of space on his C drive. I had a look and noticed that his C:\Windows folder is 75 GB large.

I've never seen one that big was wondering if there is a common cause for this.

He's running Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3. I had a look inside the directory and the only really big folder is System32 which is sitting at 2.16GB. I can't see where the 75GB figure is coming from.

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Use Treesize free: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/

It displays a tree of your disk with the size of each dir and its subdirectories.

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I downloaded Explorer XP as directed by ben950'scomment there was 67GB in C:\WINDOWS\Installer Windows hadn't been deleting updates.

I deleted them, hopefully that wont have broken anything...

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