Subj : Re: Windows.old
To   : Alan Zisman
From : William Chaney
Date : Mon Nov 16 2015 13:54:14

 > 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
 >  WC> it 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.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I ran disk cleanup but it kept the windows.old
folder and wont let me delete it. I tried rmdir but it didn't find the folder
I was trying to remove. The folders are empty so I guess I'll just leave it
like it is. Again thanks for the reply.

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