I was asked this recently and I thought it was an interesting question: I know I cant delete things out of the component store, but what about the driver store?  Can I remove files from there without hurting anything? The answer to this is: YES ...

I havent posted in a while because of work I am doing on another project but someone asked me about what comprises the \Winsxs store and it made me remember a really good blog posting done during the development of Win7 that describes where and how that...