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• Hello... can I remove the windows.old folder?

  IM installing my windows 8 from the installation of costum (im not not formatting my hard drives).
  some of the software I used was installed there. but since unneed software is much more software I've used, I want to
  to remove this file... it is therefore normal to remove this folder? If so, how?

  Hello

  Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Community Forums.

  No need to worry, we're here to help you and guide you in the right direction.

  The windows.old folder is the old system files. Be sure to copy all the files that you can out of the Windows.old folder before you delete it. Once deleted, they are gone. You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps.

  The Windows.old folder contains the following folders:

  • Windows
  • "Documents and Settings".
  • "Program Files."

  The Windows folder stores mainly programs and files that are required to run the previous version of Windows.

  The "Documents and Settings" folder stores mainly the 'My Documents' folder and the Favorites folder. In addition, the "Documents and Settings" folder stores the office files that have been used by the previous version of Windows.

  The "Program Files" folder stores mainly programs have been installed on the earlier version of Windows.

  There are two ways to delete the windows.old folder. Here is the simple step.

  Method 1: Delete the C drive.

  (a) open Windows Explorer, click computer.

  (b) select C drive and you will find the Windows.old folder.

  (c) make a right click on the folder and click Remove.

   

  Method 2: Remove the "Windows.old" folder using disk cleanup

  (a) open Disk Cleanup by clicking on the button Windows + C to open the bar of charms. Click on the charm of the Search .

  (b) type cleanmgr in Search Applications box in the right pane, and then click cleanmgr.exe (disk cleanup) in the left pane to open it.

  (c) If you are prompted to choose a drive, click the drive that you have just installed Windows on and then click OK.

  (d) in the Disk Cleanup dialog box, on the Disk Cleanup tab, click clean up system files.

  (e) If you are again prompted to choose a drive, click the drive that you have just installed Windows on and then click OK.

  (f) select the Previous Windows installations check box and the other check boxes for files that you want to remove, and then click OK.

  (g) in the message that appears, click delete files.

  Let us know the status of the issue. If you need help, I'll be more than happy to help you.

• Try to remove the Windows.old folder and receive 0x801F0004 error message.

  Error 0x801F0004, ban the fast i/o for this operation path

  Upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 to the custom help, but do not reformat or distribution of the drive... found the orginal ok data and also a windows.old folder... impossible to remove completely this folder, even with hidden files, showing its empty but says 6 files are present... the mistake of deleting I get is... Error 0x801F0004, banning the path of fast i/o for this operation and will not delete the folder.  Any ideas on how to remove the windows.old folder?  Windows 7 works very well, if not more quickly then Vista.

  Hi L111,.

  Welcome to the Microsoft Answers site!

  Try the following steps to delete the windows.old folder.

  1. open Disk Cleanup by clicking the Start button. In the search box, type Disk Cleanup, and then in the list of results, click Disk Cleanup.

  If you are prompted to choose a drive, click the drive that you installed Windows, and then click OK.

  2. in the Disk Cleanup dialog box, on the Disk Cleanup tab, click clean up system files.

  If you are prompted to choose a drive, click the drive that you installed Windows, and then click OK.

  3. Select the Previous Windows installations check box and the other check boxes for files that you want to remove, and then click OK.

  4. in the message that appears, click delete files.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/how-do-I-remove-the-Windows-old-folder

  Hope this has been helpful.

  Kind regards
  Bindu S - Microsoft Support
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• Why Windows 8 allow me to remove the Windows.old folder?

  I upgraded my computer to Windows 7 to Windows 8, a few months ago, when Windows 8 came. It is my understanding that when you perform an upgrade of Windows from one version to the other, it can save a lot of files and folders under the folder Windows.old. And I understand that you can delete the Windows.old folder.

  In other words, I don't think.

  The reason why I do not think it is because whenever I tried to delete Windows.old, it stops for me with this error:

  

  And when I said to 'Try Again' he begins from the beginning? HE DOES ALL THIS TIME! This should not do this, as I did do procedure on other machines that I've updated and he's NEVER done that, but not on this machine? Why in hell does?

  Hi Rod

  You must use the disk cleanup utility to remove the Windows.old folder. See the following article for step by step instructions.

  How to remove the Windows.old folder

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-8/how-remove-Windows-old-folder

  Concerning

• Remove the "Windows.old" folder that is created in the C drive, after an upgrade to Windows 7 to 8?

  Original title: upgrade of Windows 8.

  Upgrade Windows 8 (starting from Windows 7) created a folder called "Windows.old" on my C:\ drive.

  This folder can be deleted?

  As long as your personal files were transferred successfully to Windows 8, Yes, you can remove it.

  See:

  How to delete Windows.old folder - Microsoft Windows

• I can trash the Windows.old folder?

  If I'm happy to stay with Windows 10, I can delete the Windows.old folder? It contains 126 956 and 30.1 GB files.

  If I do not need, could reclaim that space.

  Hello:

  If you are absolutely sure you don't need all the files in this folder and that you're absolutely sure that you do not want to return to your previous operating system (or you have recovery discs that can give in any case), then Yes you can delete the Windows.old folder.

  Here's how...

  Run the disk cleanup utility.  Let him do the disk cleanup window.

  Then on the left side of the bottom of the window, click clean up system files.

  Then he turns again and arrives at the disk cleanup window, and you can check all the boxes to remove the files.  One of them will be the windows.old folder.

• Cannot delete the Windows.old folder

  Original title: when starting to write %systemdrive%\ and when write % WinDir % I have a windows.old file. How do I delete this file with the right path and the directory within the hour? When do right click I don't have option and is not simply to remove

  The question about the title.

  Hello
  1. do you reinstall the operating system?
  2. If so, was your previous Windows XP operating system?
  Windows.Old is created when the operating system is reinstalled. It may contain important data of the installation previous this is why it is advisable to back up the data before you delete the Windows.old folder.
   
  Simple is to delete the Windows.old folder using disk cleanup.
   
  How can I remove the Windows.old folder?
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/how-do-I-remove-the-Windows-old-folder
  (Link is mainly for Windows 7, but must also be good for Windows VIsta)
  
   
  Aziz Nadeem - Microsoft Support

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• Delete the windows.old folder/files? And what is their purpose?

  Remove the windows.old folder?  What is the purpose of this anyway?

  The windows.old folder contains the files of the previous OS. (aka if you upgrade to win7 Vista, the windows.old folder contains the old Vista OS)

  I think you can remove...
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• How can I remove the blocked documents in the printer queue in Windows 7

  How can I remove the blocked documents in the printer queue in Windows 7?

  Follow the sequence:

  1. go to start-> type services.msc-> press on enter.
  2. search for the print spooler service. Double click on it and click on stop under service status.
  3. navigate to the following location: C:\Windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS
  4 remove all files in the folder.
  5. now, even once, go to the print spooler service properties dialog box and press start under the service status.
  
  This should clear all files in the print queue.

• I had to install a fresh install of Win7 on a Win7 computer. Old settings are in the Windows.old folder. How can I migrate the old settings for new install?

  I tried to 'upgrade' a Win7 installation using a valid Win7 upgrade CD. Because the current version is newer than the CD, it would not be upgraded. I created an installation on the old HDD. All my old programs are still on the HARD drive. I have the Windows.old folder on the HARD disk. I backed up the My Documents folder with all my data. It is now restored. I need to get the old registry settings in the registry again so I did not reinstall all my programs. How can I do this?

  Unfortunately, you will need to reinstall all your programs from their original installation discs.

  What you should have done was to download a current copy of the edition of Windows 7, you have a license for Service Pack 1 integrated and do an upgrade of the repair.

  Unfortunately, it's too late now, since you seem to have done a custom installation.

• Cannot open files in the Windows.old folder.

  Original title: I can't OPEN THE FILES IN THE C:\WINDOWS FOLDER. OLD
   
  I FORMATTED MY LAPTOP FOR 3 OR FOR TIME. BUT NOW I CAN'T OPEN ANY GAMES WHO ARE IN THE LOCATION C:\WINDOWS. OLD\ (PROGRAM FILES (x 86) \WILDGAMES...) THERE ARE FILES LIKE WINDOWS. OLD.000, WINDOWS. Old.001, etc. SAMSUNG RECOVERY SOLUTION 5 ALSO NOT WOKING. HOW CAN I GET IT ALL.

  ONE OF HER SHOWS...

  Signature of the problem:
  Problem event name: APPCRASH
  Name of the application: DriveGreen1 - WT.exe
  Application version: 2.2.0.82
  Application timestamp: 4a64d47f
  Fault Module name: DriveGreen1 - WT.exe
  Fault Module Version: 2.2.0.82
  Timestamp of Module error: 4a64d47f
  Exception code: c0000005
  Exception offset: 0002f4a9
  OS version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.2
  Locale ID: 1033
  Additional information 1: 33e3
  More information 2: 33e3088220c0b0cc79609643cfeaa4f6
  Additional information 3: cb01
  Additional information 4: cb01097c2b9f695aa9f8d8260260a959

  Hello

  Thanks for your posting in Microsoft Community

  You have formatted your partition of hole or C only
  You had installed multiple operating systems in Multiple drive.
  This file has not been completely formatted, that's why you found the old folder windows, you will need to format whole drive all the
  To move your personal files from the previous installation of Windows 7 folders, follow these steps:

  1. Locate the Windows.old folder, and open the following folder:
     Users\ directoryUserName
  2. Right-click the Documents folder and then click Rename. Rename the My Documents folder.
  3. Right click on the music folder and then click Rename. Rename the My Music folder.
  4. Right-click the images folder and then click Rename. Rename the folder my pictures.
  5. Press in and hold the CTRL key and click to select all the files in the user folder. Then, press CTRL + X to move the items in the users folder to the Clipboard in Windows 7.
  6. Click Start

     and then click the user name in the upper right of the start menu.

  7. Click on paste.

  More information visit the site

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/932912

• Is it safe to delete the Windows.old folder?

  Original title: after you have reinstalled Windows 7, it is safe to delete my window.old files? & one more question...

  It is said during the deletion process if I do this will damage my computer.

  -J' I re installed windows due to a Partition problem earlier, and today I realized that I had these old files from a previous installation (same drive)
  It is safe to delete these files? Thank you.
  In addition, my HDD was reduced in size considerably, from more than 50%. (C:). It was 1 to when I got it, but after you have reinstalled Windows because of a problem, I am now made it is 451 GB.
  Thank you in advance.

  Hi Conner,

  Thanks for keeping us posted and share this information with us.

  As Palcouk suggested, you can remove the "Windows.old" folder if you have saved data on the computer.

  It is not possible for the drive to shrink. I would like you to check the amount of space on the hard disk after you remove the Windows.old folder.

  Let us know if you have other questions about Windows in the future. We will be happy to help you.

• The windows.old folder can be moved to the Windows folder?

  I did a reinstall on Windows 7 registry problems, I've had with the preview of the 2013 Office. When I did reinstall on WIndows 7, it created a WIndows.Old folder that stores all my documents, program files and everything. I also have a WIndows folder above that. If the Windows.Old folder can be moved to the Windows folder or separate them? Microsoft Office is also in the Windows.Old folder.

  I did a reinstall on Windows 7 registry problems, I've had with the preview of the 2013 Office. When I did reinstall on WIndows 7, it created a WIndows.Old folder that stores all my documents, program files and everything. I also have a WIndows folder above that. If the Windows.Old folder can be moved to the Windows folder or separate them? Microsoft Office is also in the Windows.Old folder.

  If you have all this work and you have all the files you need - completely erase the Windows.OLD folder.

  If it makes you feel better - copy the machine completely for more security instead.

  In other words - once you have everything works as you like and know sure you miss not all the files - you don't need the windows.old folder at all.

• Why am I unable to delete the windows.old folder

  I was using windows 7. For some reason any I reinstalled it without formatting my data and now I am unable to remove the windows.old folder in c:\. I want to remove it please help me...

  Run the Disk Cleanup Wizard. that it removes.

• How to delete Windows.old, I can't delete the Windows.old folder after doing a system recovery

  I have changed the ownership of the folder but still cannot delete as usual windows can only slow progress.

  The following may help: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/How-do-I-remove-the-Windows-old-folder?