VSP1CLN Command-Line Options

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The Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Files Removal Tool (VSP1CLN.exe) can be used to remove the files that are archived after Windows Vista SP1 is applied. Running this tool is optional.

Installing Windows Vista SP1 increases the amount of disk space that is used by the operating system. This space is used to archive files so that SP1 can be uninstalled. Typically, you should run VSP1CLN.exe if you want to reclaim this disk space after applying SP1 and if you will not need to uninstall SP1.

Important
You cannot uninstall Windows Vista SP1 after you run this tool on an image.

This tool works in conjunction with SP1 only and can be used online or offline.

VSP1CLN.exe Command-Line Options

The following command-line options are available for the Vista SP1 RTM Files Removal Tool:

VSP1CLN.exe [/h] | [/o: Offline_Windows_directory_path] [/quiet]

These command-line options are not case sensitive.

Option	Description
/? or /h	Displays this list of VSP1CLN commands.
/o:[Offline_Windows_directory_path]	Indicates that the archived RTM files that need to be removed are in an offline image.
/quiet	Runs in quiet mode. No console output is provided. If this option is not used, you will be prompted with a confirmation message.
/verbose	Provides additional diagnostics output.

Important
Upon completion, you will not be able to remove Windows Vista SP1 from the image.

I echo what others are saying here and all over the web. The winsxs is consuming 15GB of my harddrive and running this utility does nothing. It completes in 2 seconds and doesn't touch a single file. The switches don't seem to work either. I've run as admin, i've run the exe directly, still nothing. Any assistance would be greatly appriciated.

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TrancePlant

Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

I was grateful to see the instructions outlined here, however my machine did not appear to have the file vsp1cln.exe Upon further examination I located the file at C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-v..ck-uninstallremoval_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18000_none_dc83934b9415d3b6\vsp1cln.exe <ul><li>I right-clicked and selected Run as Administrator</li><li>Confirmed my intentions at the dialog box </li><li>Within 1 second the process opened a command window, closed it, and the process was done.</li></ul>My Windows\winsxs folder size remained at 13GB. I then tried to run the above instructions again, no change. I tried opening a command prompt, navigating to the file and running the process vsp1cln.exe /verbose no change, no feedback. I will attempt to find other means by which to run this cleanup utility.

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complete_nobody

Solution found

Execute the command Compcln.exe in the Windows folder this one worked for me, although reduced the size to just 13.8 one more thind, thjis works if you have installed SP2

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complete_nobody

Windows Vista business 64-bit

I had the same problem as Chris. found the solution and got excited. same routine, found the file where he found it and no result. My Windows\winsxs folder size remained at 15.5 GB. I also tried it both in command prompt and normally. no change in size. I have both SP1 and SP2 installed. Any comment? plzzzzzzzzz

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Chris_Guzak

Running the program

Firstly, check the size of the folder (Windows\winsxs) by right-clicking it, choose Properties and make a note of its size and the number of files and folders. To run the program, open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Windows\System32, look for the file VSP1CLN.EXE (the capitals are for clarity only), right-click it, select Run As Administrator then reply Y to the prompt. Now check its size again to see how much disk space you have reclaimed, you will be surprised as it will be quite substantial. <this is misleading giving that WinSxS contains hard links that count the sizes of files twice, read about that here http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/19/disk-space.aspx#comments> There is no harm in running the program where SP1 was either included on the DVD or slipstreamed into the DVD before installation. Depending upon what has been installed, you may gain some disk space.

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VSP1CLN.exe Command-Line Options

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