Message of support HP _re old version of windows
I managed enhanced W8 to 8.1 W on my new HP Pavilion Touchsmart 15 laptop PC. Now I'm in a quandry on a message that appears in the HP Support Assistant. What what can make this old version of windows be on my C drive? I certainly don't want to delete anything to do with the W8?
The message:
"When you upgraded from a previous version of windows the previous version of windows has been saved in the folder C:\Windows.old. According to the number of programs and data files that exist on your previous versions of windows, this folder is very wide. HP recommends to copy all the files old you want on your new version and delete windows.old to free disk space.
To remove this recommendation from HP Support Assistant results press the reporter or ignore the button in the HP Support Assistant"
What should I do about this message. I don't want to be wrong?
Thank you
Hello
To please not touch D: and you have a lot of space on C: Windows.old folder in this case could be about 20 GB.
Kind regards.
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