Wish to delete "Windows old" folder

Hello Simon, and welcome to Seven Forums.

The tutorial below can help show you how to. :)

Windows.old Folder - Delete

Hope this helps,
Shawn

How big was your Vista C partition?

Simon,

As Wolfgang posted above, the C:\Windows.old folder contains a copy of your previously installed Vista.

Simon Sudbury said:

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

You can try to delete it as you would any other file/folder. For some reason it does not always work that way. If that does not work you can go through the tutorial then.

Simon Sudbury said:

Many thanks

Vista partition was 197Gb.

There you have your answer. The freespace of the old partition is of course not in the Windows.old folder.

Glad we could help Simon. :)