Solved Cannot delete OlD Windows folder

[charlielv]

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.

Charlie

 

[Brink]

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.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19151-windows-old-folder-delete.html

 

[charlielv]

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.

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome.