on old.windows

HP Pavilion a6655f desktop PC

This pc was orginaly vista and I upgraded to W7 and it did left a former windows file that had vista on it and he baptized old.windows

IM in the treatment of deletion of unnecessary files free space on my pc, but I like to know what to delete in old.windows and what not to touch

Hello

Method 1:

In Windows Explorer, open the folder Windows.old.

Find the users folder and find the username that you used before. If you had a download folder, then take a look at it also. (Downloads\my Documents, my music, my pictures, my videos)

Browse documents, photos, music files and other downloads you want to keep.

Tranfer of files that you have decided to keep in a folder outside the Windows.old folder.

When you are finished, you can delete the Windows.old folder to reclaim the space.  Don't forget and the trash and inspect the files there. Once you have completed your inspection of the files in the trash, which you can click Empty trash.

Method 2: (if the old files are not important to you)

Click the Windows Orb-> all programs-> click on Accessories-> system folder-> disk cleanup tools. Who calls a dialog window. 


Select the drive which contains the .old top files and click OK.

Once complete the system scan, check the box to clean up the system files at the bottom of the dialog window.

In the next dialog that opens, select the drive that contains the .old on new files and click OK.

Your operating system will do another scan and present you with another dialog box containing a list of checkboxes.

See the list and select the one that says older versions of windows and click OK. Should allow you to find some drive capacity.

Best regards

ERICO

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