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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