Regarding the hard links, I got amused by the confusion created around them. Funny, now I have even more space than I had before installing SP1. One note that I would make here is that even if the option says it will remove a few hundreds of MB after I cleaned up my drive the service removed around 3GB of excess files, There is no dedicated tool, it all got integrated into theĭisk Cleanup service. I too am using Link ShellĮxtension as posted above by Ronnie Vernon, easy way to see which are hard linked (red arrow) and which are simple files.īefore getting here I saw in a lot of places people asking for the cleanup tool after installing SP1 for Windows 7 like vsp1cln. Maybe some of the files can be trimmed like the mp3's, avi's, etc but the rest of the system files should be left alone. To start by answering the OP's question with the perfect answer posted above byĪndre.Ziegler, you don't touch winsxs. Anyway here are some summarized points of what I understood about how all of it works. Wow, long discussion about hardlinks and winsxs.

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