Deleting files & thumbnail previews on RC...

Hi guys.

Just installed the RC last night, very impressed! However there's two things I'd like to do atm.

Firstly, not an issue just down to RC, but seeing as though I'm going to be sticking with this build for a while I might as well see if there's a solution... I want to turn the taskbar thumbnail previews off! Can't think of their real name lol for me, they just get in the way. Any ideas?

Secondly... I have Windows.old000 from an earlier W7 build. I have 9.4Gb of crap in there that I don't need anymore. I want to delete it, but it won't let me! I messed around with permissions for nearly an hour and eventually "took control" of the folder myself and gave full control, but it still won't have it. Tried dragging it to the Recycle Bin, it comes up with some error like D:\...$Recycle Bin (can't remember the full thing, at work right now) and I even tried to delete through DOS, it seemed to work but in reality actually done nothing. Any help appreciated as I need the space! Thanks.

Hi mate regarding the previews I mean like this...



Don't want them when I hover over a program on the taskbar!

Against my second point, it's a good idea, but... I have two old installations. Windows.old which is from the beta, and Windows.old000 which is from a 69xx build. If I do what you're saying will it delete both? As I'd rather keep the beta information. But if there's no other way I might just back up and go for it!

swarfega said:

Windows.old is your old installation which contains the old windows folder, program files and appdata which contains setup data for all the programs you had installed.

So if your sure you dont want that data, then follow this guide: Take Ownership Shortcut and then you should be able to delete it.

Thanks. Is it any different than right clicking going into properties and "taking ownership" the long way? As this didn't work for me. But I'll give it a go anyway!

Yeah I've just had a look around and noticed there are other posts about it actually, should of looked first hopefully someone will come up for a fix if so many people want the option to turn it off!?