Subj : Windows.old
To   : William Chaney
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Mon Nov 16 2015 11:50:49

On 2015-11-15 10:13 PM, William Chaney -> All wrote:
 WC> I'm having a problem getting rid of a windows.old dir. I ran disk
 WC> cleanup on it
 WC> and it won't delete the windows.old dir and everytime I try to delete it
 WC> myself
 WC> I get an error saying that the dir no longer exists. How can I get rid
 WC> of this
 WC> dir? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.


Did Disk Cleanup remove all (or most) of the contents? I recently updated to 
Windows 10 1511 on a pair of HP Stream 11's (newish low-end small laptops with 
32 GB SSDs - so drive space is at a premium).

In each, the Windows.old folder reported taking up 18-19 GB of space - which 
was more room than was available on the drives.

I ran Disk Cleanup - remember that you have to click the Clean up System Files 
button, and then manually [x] the option to remove Old Windows installations.

Afterwards, about 9 GB of space was freed up - the Windows.old folder remained, 
but only with a few tiny files - total space used: around 100 MB. I haven't 
tried to delete the folders (and little bit of contents) - more important to me 
was having the drive space back.

I am puzzled by the exaggeration of the amount of space taken by the folder, 
however - on both of these computers.

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