{"id":598,"date":"2021-09-03T20:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/windows-vista-cannot-get-compclnexe-to-work-to-clean-up-winsxs-directory-12862-html"},"modified":"2021-09-27T19:38:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T19:38:27","slug":"windows-vista-cannot-get-compclnexe-to-work-to-clean-up-winsxs-directory-12862-html","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-vista\/cannot-get-compclnexe-to-work-to-clean-up-winsxs-directory\/12862.html","title":{"rendered":"Cannot get compcln.exe to work to clean up winsxs directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><td>I am trying to free up disc space on a Vista PC using compcln.exe to clean up the WinSXS directory and make Service Pack 2 permanent. However, when I ran it, it failed to do anything and everytime I try to re-run it, it fails &#8211; I think there is a message saying it has already run and cant be run again, though it flashes off the screen too quickly to read. Any ideas how it can be re-run or any other way of cleaning out the WinSXS directory safely? Thanks\n<\/td><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":84},"question-category":[],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}