Hello!
I'm searching for solutions for reducing the winsxs stuff. First, I'm not a layman so I don't need an umpteenth reiteration, that I shouldn't delete anything because they're backups and variants of dlls. I simply don't need it. I pretty much use the same programs for the most part and I can solve a plain dll problem if needed, I don't need old variants of my unproblematically functioning graphic driver etc... Actually I prefer having portable variants of programs that have anything they need. Dll hell is heaven compared to winsxs hell.
So basically what I want is:
1. Firstly to remove backups, duplicates of all sorts. So basically I need something to identify these compared to things that are actually used and remove them. It wouldn't hurt if I could do it selectively, but I'm not diehard for this.
2. A windows (registry) setting, hack, patch would be also nice to stop windows from doing what it does the way it does, but behave like XP with which I never had problems with. I don't have high hopes for this, but who knows, maybe someone did this.
All ideas are welcome for cutting down windows's mindless bloat.
I'm searching for solutions for reducing the winsxs stuff. First, I'm not a layman so I don't need an umpteenth reiteration, that I shouldn't delete anything because they're backups and variants of dlls. I simply don't need it. I pretty much use the same programs for the most part and I can solve a plain dll problem if needed, I don't need old variants of my unproblematically functioning graphic driver etc... Actually I prefer having portable variants of programs that have anything they need. Dll hell is heaven compared to winsxs hell.
So basically what I want is:
1. Firstly to remove backups, duplicates of all sorts. So basically I need something to identify these compared to things that are actually used and remove them. It wouldn't hurt if I could do it selectively, but I'm not diehard for this.
2. A windows (registry) setting, hack, patch would be also nice to stop windows from doing what it does the way it does, but behave like XP with which I never had problems with. I don't have high hopes for this, but who knows, maybe someone did this.
All ideas are welcome for cutting down windows's mindless bloat.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Ryzen 5 1600
- Motherboard
- Asus Prime B350-PLUS
- Memory
- G.SKILL Trident Z 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000MHz F4-3000C15D-16GTZB
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 (Asus ENGTS450)
- PSU
- 500w FSP