HP ENVY 17 Leap Motion SE: Windows.old

I noticed that, after the latest version of software of M/S there is now a folder in my drive C marked 'windows.old '.  It seems to be big enough and seems to have a lot of the stuff that is in the ordinary "windows" directory.  I understand that the update probably renamed my directory windows previous windows.old before installing a new one, but I do not understand the purpose of leave the directory 'windows.old' on the computer after the update found.

Can someone please tell me if the "windows.old" directory is necessary, or can it be deleted?

Any info that you can do about it would be appreciated.

Thank you

Hello:

You can consult the user files in the windows.old folder to determine if there are files you want to keep before you delete the windows.old folder.

You don't need to run Windows.

Which should happen when Microsoft pushed the latest version of W10 to all PCs running the first version.

This happened to me in November.

It won't get deleted by itself, then you will need to run the disk and then Cleanup utility when you get to the disk cleanup window, click on the box of files of cleaning system on the lower left side of the window.

She will run again and when you get to the disk cleanup window, you can check all the boxes including the window.old box for remove and free up space on the hard disk.

If your laptop does not have a a SSD drive, also run the Disk Defragmenter utility in order to optimize the drive afterwards.

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