Don’t delete that!
I have an Asus Zenbook with a 250GB SSD. After several years, I am again getting warnings about running low on storage space. I have previously drastically cut my music and photo files, so I’m looking for other ideas.
My laptop has an Intel Core i5 processor, but there’s 5GB of AMD64 files on the hard drive, in the WinSxS folder. Can I delete these, as I assume they are not used by the Intel system?
Stephen Eastman
Darien Graham-Smith replies: I’m afraid you can’t safely delete these files. AMD64 is the standard 64-bit architecture that’s used by both AMD and Intel processors – the name merely reflects the fact that it was originally designed by AMD as an extension to the 32-bit
