Windows in "Component Configuration Mode"?

[pmikep]

Saw a post by Clanger about slimming down winsxs so thought I would try it. (Thanks, Clanger. Didn't see that option before. Will probably remove only duplicates to be safe.)

Got this message when I loaded my host live.



Never seen it before. What does it mean?

I didn't try rebooting to see if cleared. (FWIW, am running quite a lot of stuff right now, including two VM's, and two apps in Comodo's Sandbox.)

I had just run diskcleanup the other day to remove some old KB update archives. Haven't rebooted since cleaning those out either. (Who wants to reboot in the middle of work?)

1.7.0.6440.

Moderator note - Related thread here.

 

[Clanger]

Dism online cleanup. Copy and paste to a bat or cmd file. Known working on w8.1.

Color 1A
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
shutdown -r -t 30