Friday 28 June 2019

windows 7 - Deleted contents of winsxs folder and BSOD


What can I safely delete from the "C:\WINDOWS" folder?


I deleted the contents of that folder and my Windows 7 BSODs now.


Do I have to reinstall?



Answer



http://www.howtogeek.com/174705/how-to-reduce-the-size-of-your-winsxs-folder-on-windows-7-or-8/



The WinSXS folder contains all Windows system components. In fact, component files elsewhere in Windows are just links to files contained in the WinSXS folder. The WinSXS folder contains every operating system file.



So, yes, you'll have to reinstall.


(I'm curious how you managed to delete those files. That's a system folder, at least some of them would have been in use, and it would've taken some effort to get them deleted.)


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