> 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.
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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