Hey there, just wondered if anyone knows of a patch or a decent realiable supported fix for this problem. I have a small data centre with about 10 virtualized servers. Some of which run Server 2008 64bit. After about 9 months useage coupled with exchange edb files, SQl, etc. I noticed that a significant amount of my system partition on the 64bit servers was being chewed up by this directory. I understand what its there for and why its a good idea and all that stuff. What can you do though to stop it growing out of control. I thought that a 75GB C drive would be more than enough. Sadly it wasn't luckily though i could move my .edb files somewhere else to free up some space. Surely MS must be aware that not everybody has an infinite amount of storage space. Especially people who rent servers/storage space. It really would start mounting up after a while. Any advice greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Glyn.

You mention that you are running SQL. On my server the log files became really quite big because the recovery model of each database was set to 'Full'. I therefore had a choice to make between changing the recovery model to 'Simple' or to move the log files to a different drive. Alan Moseley

Hi, For more information about the function of the WinSxS folder and how to reduce the size of it, please check the following links: What is the WINSXS directory in Windows 2008 and Windows Vista and why is it so large? http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx Disk Space http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/11/19/disk-space.aspx If you would like to move Exchange or SQL files, please post the issue on the Exchange or SQL forum. Refer to: Exchange Server forum http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/exchangeserver SQL Server forum http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/community/forums-and-blogs.aspx Thanks. NinaPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.