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I have a Acer laptop with 60gb SSD hard drive. I am totally fed up to the extremely large winsxs folder (~18Gb). If I run the Acer factory reset ( http://acer.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/12869/~/how-do-i-restore-my-computer-using-the-erecovery-management-program%3F), will this delete my winsxs folder since all application are also deleted?
2Factory reset means exactly as the name suggests. You'll end up with the OS in the same state as it was when you first got the laptop. What's the confusion? – Karan – 2015-06-13T13:47:56.117
Have you run a
Disk Cleanup
?. Note that if you factory reset and then install updates you will end up with a largewinsxs
directory again. – DavidPostill – 2015-06-13T13:59:47.030@Karan there is no confusion, I don´t see anything wrong just to be sure before erasing all my software – arkiaamu – 2015-06-13T14:12:35.097
The answer seems to be self-evident so don't know what else there is to say. – Karan – 2015-06-13T14:14:00.573
@DavidPostill I have tried that. It has no meaningful effect, ~40Mb – arkiaamu – 2015-06-13T14:14:23.553
My winsxs directory is ~10 GB. – DavidPostill – 2015-06-13T14:21:12.013
@DavidPostill I meant that Disk Clean up deleted 40Mb of the files – arkiaamu – 2015-06-13T14:26:10.730
Assuming you selected
Windows Update Cleanup
inDisk Cleanup
then you won't see any extra free space until you reboot. – DavidPostill – 2015-06-13T14:39:33.500