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• Transfer of Windows not giving an option to transfer files from Windows.old to my desired location

  I installed Win7 on my computer by using 'Custom Installation', as I was advised to do.  The data from my old hard drive was stored on drive C under the name of the folder "Windows-old".

  I have problems using Windows easy transfer.  It does not give me the option to transfer files from a folder on the C drive in places where I can use it for example. Word (I installed Office 2013 Home Premium).
  I copied the entire "My Documents" to a flash drive, but cannot transfer data from there either.
  I also installed Windows Live Mail.  I can receive and send emails, but can not access my old address book/contacts list.

  Any help/advice would be much appreciated!

  Original title: XP Win7 upgrade

  You can then retrieve your personal files from the Windows.old folder and reinstall all of your applications and drivers.

  http://notebooks.com/2010/11/09/how-to-recover-documents-music-and-email-after-upgrading-with-the-Windows-old-folder/

• Can I delete system files from Windows.old after format?

  I reformatted my computer recently and I usually remove the Windows.old folder. What I never understood are system files that it contains. Can I remove them?

  Whenever I've upgraded to Windows 7 I reformatted and delete the windows.old folder and files system for Vista and had no problem, but he never did with the same program. So is it safe or should they be not deleted?

  Hello

  Remember there is nothing in the Windows.old folder or its subfolders you need before
  you remove.

  How to remove the Windows.old folder in Windows 7
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/19151-Windows-old-folder-delete.html

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

  How to remove the Windows.old folder that is generated when you perform a custom
  Windows Vista Setup (also Windows 7)
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/933212/en-us

  How to remove and delete the folder Windows.old on Vista or Windows 7
  http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/delete-Windows-old-removal.aspx

  I hope this helps.

• Delete the file in "Windows.old".

  Can I delete all files including files system in "Windows.old" after a re - install Windows 7 without ruining my newly installed Windows 7?

  Yes, you can see the following instructions:

  How can I delete Windows. old folder? Microsoft - Windows -.

• After using Vista for a while, I installed Windows 7. Can I remove completely all files in "Windows.old".

  After using Vista for a while, I have now installed Windows 7. I can now delete the folder "Windows.old".

  Please see the advice and the method here:

  How can I remove the Windows.old folder?

• I can't delete my Windows.old folder because of file permissions.

  I have a h8-1000z HP running Windows 8 Pro (a domestic installation). I recently cloned just my hard drive to a Hitachi 1 TB to a 120 GB Intel SSD Cherryville. Such a small disc, I'm looking to get as much room I can release. My windows.old folder is about 10 GB of space lost at the moment. I tried to adjust the ownership of the folder and the files contained in conjunction with change permissions. My account is an administrator account, but even when I adjust the permissions to allow full access to the admins, I always get the following error message:

  File access denied
  You need permission to perform this action
  You need authorization of josh-HP\Administrators to make changes to this file.
  (josh-HP is the name of my rig).
  I tried to give permissions to users, administrator, administrators, and all, but nothing seems to work. I even tried to delete the file in safe mode, nothing works. If anyone has any recommendations he could do, my ears are large open.
  Josh Cunningham
  Student and Tech Junky

  Hello

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

  How to remove the "Windows.old" folder in Windows 8 (several methods)
  http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2527-Windows-old-folder-delete-Windows-8-a.html

  How to recover files from the Windows.old folder
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-8/restore-files-upgrade-Windows-old

  ================================

  If necessary:

  1. open a command prompt (Admin)
  
  Since the office - key Windows + X, or right-click in the lower left-
  Command prompt (Admin); OR in the screen start just start typing CMD
  or in the Menu of charms - research - Apps - CMD-> and right-click on it.
  then on low screen "Run as Administrator".

  2 prompt probably like C:\Windows\System32 >

  This type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  CD\

  Now, the line should look like C:\ >

  3: This type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  Windows.old DIR

  Should resemble C:\>DIR Windows.old

  It should return

  C:\Windows.old directory

  and view the contents of Windows.old

  It's just to make sure that the Windows.old folder is under C: (drive C) - if she does not STOP

  4 this type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  Attrib - r - / s has s h Windows.old

  Should look like C:\>Attrib/s - r - a s h Windows.old
  (there are SPACES between Attrib and / s and r - and - a and -s-h and Windows.old)

  He should return to the prompt C:\ if it shows and ERROR and STOP - then check the command
  and if it has been entered correctly you are not in the right place.

  5 this type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  RD/s Windows.old

  Should resemble C:\>RD/s Windows.old
  (there are SPACES between the RD /s and Windows.old)

  Return Windows.old, are your sure Y/N Y type

  (If you get a message that you have no property rights then type this command
  "and press ENTER.)

  TAKEOWN /f Windows.old/a/r

  and repeat step 5 - were you using an elevated command prompt?

  6: This type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  Windows.old DIR

  Should look like C:\>DIR Windows.old - and press ENTER.

  It should return

  Directory of C:\

  File not found

  Which confirms that it is gone.

  7 close the COMMAND window

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle=""><- mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• Windows.Old - Can I load the entire file at once my computer is restored with it's info earlier?

  original title: Windows to restore the old windows.old file

  Hi all. I recently had to reinstall my os after that sp1 problems (thanks a lot to Microsoft) I now have a windows.old folder with all of my old saved stuff. Question is, can I load the entire file at once my computer is restored with it's info earlier? Pls let me know. Thanks in advance

  Hello

  None

  You can not load the whole file

  Windows.Old is not to restore your computer

  You can only recover data from the windows.old folder

  programs need to be reinstalled from the original media

  Read about the windows.old folder

  How to restore your personal files after you perform a custom Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation

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

• Is it safe to delete Windows.old files after doing a system restore?

  I would like to know if it is safe to delete Windows.old files after doing a system restore. I did two restorations system in a year or two, and I have two files labeled "Windows.old" and "Windows.old.000" which are just take a lot of space on my computer. I heard that it is safe to remove them, but only if some files are copied correctly. How do you know if those files are copied on?

  Thank you!

  Hello

  It is safe to delete

  but get your data off it 1 if necessary

  you are the one who has to decide if you have recovered your data from the windows.old folder, until you remove

  Here's how to recover data from it

  How to restore your personal files after you perform a custom Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation

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

  and here's how to remove

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/240390-Windows-old-folder-delete.html

• Cannot delete windows.old files

  Remember - this is a public forum so never post private information such as numbers of mail or telephone!

  Ideas: Hi, am unable to complete the removal of the files from windows.old, securi-rom files look like they're language scrambled, computer says that they do not exist, but I can still see them in the folder and computer won't let me delete... Please advise

  • You have problems with programs
  • Error messages
  • Recent changes to your computer
  • What you have already tried to solve the problem

  I'm sorry, but we cannot help you any further.
  This is the way to remove the windows.old folder.

  Contact LG.

  See you soon. Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• How to delete windows.old files

  Hello, I recently bought a laptop Acer Aspire 5536 with Vista and I have upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
  because I did not format first I find myself with windows.old files, I have manged to remove the program files from windows.old in taking possession, but I can not delete the folder windows.old itself, I've seen some sugestions to do a disk cleanup but this does not work for me because I see not the windows.old file
  does anyone know of a way to delete windows.old please until I do a format?
  Thank you.

  Hi all

  Try cleaning disc, select the C drive, then click on file system cleanup, select C drive once more and then you will find the windows installation previous option. It worked for me... hope you.

• files and folders in the windows.old folder missing

  Recently, I updated my windows 8. (a day and a half)

  Today I was moving the content in the folder windows.old to the other locations, (4 ~ 5 h ago)

  Suddenly, after the computer has restarted, the content in the windows.old folder disappeared except for users and windows folders.

  I copy the files from windows.old/Program files and I don't know that I do not delete the folder by myself.

  I read previous posting on similar problems, but that's because they kept their too long files or their disk space was not enough.

  But I have enough space in my C drive and just refreshed 1 ~ 2 days ago.

  I did not drive or any cleaning that is.

  It is unreasonable to a system to remove the backup files after a few days without noticing.

  Please let me know how to solve this problem and to recover these files.

  There are a lot of files in the previous program files, I need to recover the precious.

  Hi Junwhan,

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  I can understand the importance of data could be in the Windows.old folder and we regret the inconvenience.

  Yes, Windows 8 has a new timer feature which will automatically delete Windows.old files after a period of 4 weeks since the upgrade. The idea is to avoid the waste of space giving you plenty of time to get what you need out of the folder and delete those that sit for months or even years.

  Since it's just been 1-2 days of update process, you can activate the "hidden objects" to see if the Windows.old files appear.

  As you open the file Explorer, click view and check the hidden items

  In addition, if you use third-party antivirus program control the log of activities see if there is any action taken at the time where the files have disappeared.  Most of the antivirus program automatically deletes the default files. You can change these settings, however, it is not recommended.

  If you use the default, Windows Defender (WD) on Windows 8.1 then WD has real-time analysis allow by default. Refer to this link: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/wiki/protect_defender-protect_start/windows-defender-on-windows-8-introduction-and/f1e00106-6687-4efe-9ec0-ed9f72fabb92

  Check the history of Windows Defender:

  1. Type of user interface modern Windows defender.

  2. Click Windows Defender.

  3. Click the history tab, and then click Details.

  4. Check Date and time if you find any virus.

  Note: The data files that are infected must be cleaned only by removing the file completely, which means that there is a risk of data loss.

  Hope this information is useful. Please feel free to answer in the case where you are facing in the future other problems with Windows.

• Restore windows 7 using the windows.old folder after the installation of windows 8?

  Hi all

  After you have installed windows 8 on a pc comes with windows 7, I learned just learned that I don't have a product key valid win8 because I already used once for an installation of win8 on another pc. Now, I need to go back to win7 because I don't plan on buying another product key.
  I know that I can do this with the option to restore from the manufacturer, but it will be a hassle to get back to the top/reinstall all my applications and data.
  Is it possible to go on win7 by using the windows.old folder?

  Hello

  Whether you are planning to install Windows 7 on the computer that has Windows 8, we can only perform a custom installation.

  If you are using an OEM computer, see the link:

  Understanding downgrade rights

  If you do not use an OEM computer, you may need to try the following steps to perform a custom installation when you have lost the applications and settings, however the data stored on the C drive will be saved to the Windows.old folder.

  For the steps to detalied on how to spend to try solutions by André from the link:

  Can I downgrade to Windows 7?

  Note: Make sure that you back up important data before performing a custom installation.

  Come back if you have any questions with windows and we will be happy to help.

• must take windows.old off the computer, how can I copy all documents to 8.1 documents?

  My laptop has just changed to the 8.1 now he tells me to copy my documents from 8 to 8.1, and then delete windows.old.  I can't find a way to do it.  Someone who can help?

  Hello

  To access files in the Windows.old folder, see the Microsoft guide on the following link.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-GB/Windows-8/restore-files-upgrade-Windows-old

  To remove the Windows.old folder after you have copied your files, see the followingdocument.

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

  Best regards

  DP - K

• Windows 8 has been deleted and my windows.old/programfiles?

  I was rather annoyed that windows 8, rather than integrate my existing programs and settings, pushed everything including parameters in windows.old/ProgramFiles (what is the point of having a check box that says 'keep existing settings' if it has not yet rendered my inaccessible email until I downloaded windows live mail again?)

  However, after hours of violin, I managed to do a combination of programs to re - install and run with difficult settings from the file directory windows.old/program through desktop shortcuts
  In recent days the shortcuts no longer works and I see windows 8 has been deleted and my windows.old/programfiles directory!
  It is not in my trash, it isn't in my forties AVG
  
  Anyone know where it is!
  I did not understand why windows 8 should go through all my programs from the road, so it would take me hours to do shortcuts... but deleting the entire directory and my settings? Come on, this is ridiculous
  HELLLLP!

  Andy

  Hello

  Thanks for posting your question on the Forum of the Microsoft community.

  From your problem description, I understand that the Windows .old folder is deleted from your computer Windows 8.

  To better help you, pease provides us with the following information.

  1. When did you install Windows 8 on your computer?

  I understand that the inconvenience caused to you, unfortunately widows .old folder will remove automatically after 28 days, as Windows has been installed.

  It will also remove automatically when the player has less than 10% free space.

  I'm sorry to inform that it is not possible to recover if the Windows.old folder is deleted from your computer.

  Response with the required information. If you have additional questions, please get back to us and we would be happy to help you.

• How can I remove windows .old folder

  Recently passed under win 7 to 8 Win. I have Windows.old and Windows.old.000 files and I can't delete them.

  I tried the cleanup utility, remove the old installation of windows, without success.

  Hello

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

  How to remove the "Windows.old" folder in Windows 8 (several methods)
  http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2527-Windows-old-folder-delete-Windows-8-a.html

  How to recover files from the Windows.old folder
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-8/restore-files-upgrade-Windows-old

  ================================

  If necessary:

  1. open a command prompt (Admin)
  
  Since the office - key Windows + X, or right-click in the lower left-
  Command prompt (Admin); OR in the screen start just start typing CMD
  or in the Menu of charms - research - Apps - CMD-> and right-click on it.
  then on low screen "Run as Administrator".

  2 prompt probably like C:\Windows\System32 >

  This type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  CD\

  Now, the line should look like C:\ >

  3: This type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  Windows.old DIR

  Should resemble C:\>DIR Windows.old

  It should return

  C:\Windows.old directory

  and view the contents of Windows.old

  It's just to make sure that the Windows.old folder is under C: (drive C) - if she does not STOP

  4 this type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  Attrib - r - / s has s h Windows.old

  Should look like C:\>Attrib/s - r - a s h Windows.old
  (there are SPACES between Attrib and / s and r - and - a and -s-h and Windows.old)

  He should return to the prompt C:\ if it shows and ERROR and STOP - then check the command
  and if it has been entered correctly you are not in the right place.

  5 this type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  RD/s Windows.old

  Should resemble C:\>RD/s Windows.old
  (there are SPACES between the RD /s and Windows.old)

  Return Windows.old, are your sure Y/N Y type

  (If you get a message that you have no property rights then type this command
  "and press ENTER.)

  TAKEOWN /f Windows.old/a/r

  and repeat step 5 - were you using an elevated command prompt?

  6: This type at the prompt, and then press ENTER.

  Windows.old DIR

  Should look like C:\>DIR Windows.old - and press ENTER.

  It should return

  Directory of C:\

  File not found

  Which confirms that it is gone.

  7 close the COMMAND window

  Repeat with the other instead of Windows.old folder name.

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle=""><- mark="" twain="" said="" it="">