dism++ in windows 7 winsxs cleaning and more

[qwest01]

i have asked this in discord too , but hope i would get to see more here as of having a seperate post for this - i used the normal mode dism ++ cleaning winsxs , it did well , but i am afraid to touch the expert mode (its in options) which shows about installer folder ,hard link merge (930MB in mine) ,installer baseline cache . should i clean them , i am in win 7 64 ult .
if anyone tried and have some deep insights and experience , please kindly share some info ,thank you .

[qwest01]

[luk3Z]

IIRC you should not clean winsxs if you have plans to uninstall any updates. Read more about it & ask ChatGPT https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=winsxs+cleanup&ia=web

[qwest01]

hello @luk3Z thank you for replying , i have cleaned the winsxs in normal mode, it cleared some 400-600 mb all together in normal mode , now in expert mode , the things i have mentioned can be cleaned or not , and what problems it can give, i did search lots of info ,but its all about win 10 11 , i would like to know if anyone here have tried to clean the things i have mentioned above and what happend to the system etc post clean .
i have no problem with uninstalling the updates , actually the programer of this software said they can be uninstalled later, no problem in it , i did try to uninstall that telemetry kb9999 something , it did uninstall , so not a problem there, its ok for me if i cant uninstall updates later . please do share anything else you know about these " installer folder ,hard link merge (930MB in mine) ,installer baseline cache " folders .

[Duke]

IIRC you should not clean winsxs

I second that, modifications to WinSxS can lead to big troubles.