Long time no see.

I was digging through one of our virtual terminal servers today to try and figure out why there was only 29.8MB of 20GB free on the system partition.  A large culprit turned out to be the C:\Windows\winsxs folder.  Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a lot that can be done about this 6GB+ folder full of, well, crap.

From MSDN:

Administrators should not, for any reason, take it upon themselves to clean out the directory – doing so may prevent Windows Update and MSI from functioning properly afterwards.

But, alas, this is just another day in the life.  I’m bleeding from my eyeballs.  We’re still looking for a fix, workaround, way to move it, or a way to delete it, but I don’t have much confidence that that approach.

Really, Microsoft?  Really?