Cannot delete OlD Windows folder


  1. charlielv
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    Cannot delete OlD Windows folder


    My Samsung laptop crashed 2 days ago and I tried for almost a days trying to repair it with no avail. It somehow change my login Icon Charlie to Samsung and needed a password for the Samsung icon. I decided to re-install and it created a folder called Old windows. Now that my laptop is up and running, I went and tried to delete the Old Windows directory and I got a prompt saying that I needed Administrator privilege to delete the folder. I am the only user on this laptop and I am the Admin. I think it is looking at the Old Windows admin password. Any ideas on how I can delete the old windows folder? It's is about 17gb.

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  3. Brink
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    Hello Charlie, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    An option in the tutorial below should be able to help delete the Windows.old folder for you. :)

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  4. charlielv
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    Disk Cleanup did the job deleting my windows.old files which was 21GB. That was too easy and I did not even think about it. Thank you so much for your help and quick reply.
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  6. Brink
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    You're most welcome. :)
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