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A Deeper Look at Disk Space Usage in Windows 7 (and Windows Vista)

Posted 01/20/2009 at 04:46:04pm

I have an HP laptop with an Intel processor.  It came installed with Vista Home Premium.  I installed (clean, not upgrade, on a brand new hard drive) a retail copy of Vista Ultimate.  In the C:Windows\winsxs folder there are over 7000 folders, containing 5.93 GB, that all begin with the name “AMD64_...”.   These folders do not appear in the original folder, as provided by HP’s original build.  Two questions:

 

1.        Are the files in these AMD64_... folders for PC’s with AMD processors?

2.       If so, can I regain almost 6 GB by deleting them?

 

The folders are protected (owned by TrustedInstaller), so I imagine I’d have to use an unlocker tool to delete them – any thoughts?

 

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