Windows 7 - Windows.old Folder - Delete

**Brink** · 08-02-2009

How to Delete the Windows.old Folder in Windows 7

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**Brink** · 11-17-2009

Ok. See if you can delete it after taking ownership of, and allowing yourself "Full Control" of it. You may need to do this in Safe Mode.

**Mike89** · 11-17-2009

Already did that. Maybe something do do with SecuRom.

**stevelew47** · 11-26-2009

Thanks for the information! This really helps totally. When I use install Windows I had to format the disc using FDisk or something like that. I even had to go back to my DOS 3.1 floppies. It has changed with Win 7.

**Akpsp** · 12-01-2009

Thanks for the tut! i have more space now.

**Whiim** · 01-03-2010

Thanks for the tutorial!

**Aaron7pm** · 01-03-2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Zidane24

I might be mistakened but I believe that the Windows.old folder has no additional permissions applied to it...you should be able to just delte the folder like any other

takes longer to do than this method

**BLED** · 01-10-2010

wow 60 gigs!

**Brink** · 01-10-2010

Wow, that is a bunch.

**murphy25** · 01-31-2010

i can beat it,just installed 7 on my daughters desktop and was getting the could not boot from disk error 5 (it needed a bios update)but instead of messing around with that installed 7 from within xp and did a custom install and was left with a windows old of 90.3 gb .
i thought it would take ages to get rid of that lot but only took a few minutes.

coldy · 02-07-2010

I remember seeing this ages ago and totally for got about doing it.
work well brink thanks for the cool tutorial

Windows 7 - Windows.old Folder - Delete

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