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Windows "old" folder
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Posted July 19, 2012 at 8:31PM
Hi
I’ve recently installed Win 7 over Vista. It was a clean install as I couldn’t get the upgrade method to work. I now find I have Windows folder (9.97Gb) and a Windows Old folder (136 Gb).
Can I just delete the Windows old folder? I’m never going back to Vista so that’s not an issue here.
Many thanks
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Posted July 19, 2012 at 8:43PM
The short answer is "Yes" as long as you are happy with your new installation. I left mine for about a month before deleting it.
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Posted July 19, 2012 at 9:02PM
Many thanks
Just a bit nervous about deleting. If it's just the old Vista files I wonder why it's so large.
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Posted July 20, 2012 at 10:51PM
Glad to be of help.
Actually, your question jogged my mind into action. My wife had been complaining recently (Ok, always!) that she was running low on disk space on her machine. Last night I checked up and found that I had forgotten to delete the .old folder after upgrading to Win 7.
At least she has now stopped complaining about that particular item.
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Posted July 21, 2012 at 8:39PM
Hi
Update:
Manged to delete it only by using disk clean up utility and then only by running as admin.
Many thanks
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