XPS 8900, why do I have a Windows.old folder

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• Windows.Old folder

  -is it possible to remove the "Windows.old" folder since that he has already created a new folder "Windows"? What could be affected? It takes almost 20G of space.

  -can I also remove "Program" and "Program (x 86)" folder? It is basically duplicated after installing Win 7. When I tried, it says "You are not allowed..." »

  Really need advice of experts here. Thank you.

  Do NOT delete the "program" and "Program (x 86)" folder. Both are necessary.

  Windows.old on your C: drive

  Usually, but not always, after installation of Windows 7 you have a Windows.old folder on your C: drive that contains your files and data from the previous installation of Windows and allows you to go back to a previous version of Windows. Open Windows Explorer and under 'Computer' click the C: drive - if the Windows.old folder is on your hard drive, it will contain all of your files to the Windows system, and it can be removed if you do not need to free up space on your hard drive.

  If she's not here, make sure you can see the Windows.old folder:
  1. click on start, type: hidden
  2. click on 'display the hidden files and folders '.
  3. Click to select "show the hidden files and folders".
  4 uncheck the following three points:
  Hide empty drives
  Hide extensions of known file types
  Hide protected operating system files
  5. click OK and look for the folder
  (Note: after you are done go back and double check "Hide protected operating system files.") If you want to change the other return parameters are.)

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

  If the Windows.old folder does not remove:
  In Windows Explorer, you should see a folder called Windows.old on your C: drive. That contains all of your files from your previous installation. If you need all the files, you can copy them to another folder and then delete Windows.old. If you do not need anything in the folder, it is safe to delete.

  Questions about installing Windows 7?
  FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions from Installation Windows 7 & responses

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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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• 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

• How can I recover Favorites and passwords after a change of operating system and older programs are listed in a windows.old folder?

  Recently, I had a fatal crash of my Windows XP Pro system. I clean installed Vista (would not allow an upgrade installation), and it offers all my settings and programs in a windows.old folder. I wish I could recover my passwords stored (even if I have to go manually) and my favorites for Firefox. I was running version 4 at the time of the accident of the o/s. Thanks for any help you can provide.

  Just as I expected. Before you follow my instructions, you may need to change your folder options to show hidden files. Now go to:

  C:/Windows.old/documents and Settings / < user on XP name > / Application Data

  And copy the text to the Mozilla folder for

  C:/Users / < username on Vista > / AppData/Roaming/Mozilla

  If the Mozilla folder does not exist, create it.

  Now in C:/windows.old/Documents and Settings / < user name on XP > / Local Settings/Application Data

  And copy the text within the Mozilla folder in

  C:/Users / < username on Vista > / AppData/Local/Mozilla

  Yet once, if the Mozilla folder does not exist, create it and rename it to Mozilla.

  I hope this helps!
  handsomeorlandoman

• Update XP 32-bit to 64-bit Windows 8 - keep this Windows.old folder?

  On this Web page , which is titled "Upgrading to Windows 8.1 of Windows Vista or Windows XP", he States the following:

  BEGINNING

  "Note".

  • You can always restore your personal files after that you upgraded to Windows 8.1. Your files are stored in the Windows.old folder, where you can retrieve them after the upgrade. For more information, see recover files from the Windows.old folder. »

  END

  However the foregoing relates to the upgrade from XP 32 bit to 32 bit of windows 8. My question is, is this Windows.old folder that is preserved when you upgrade XP 32 bit to 8 64-bitwindows?

  I have a lot of shortcut links to files and folders, etc. These shortcut links are stored in the Windows.old folder, or I will have to be reprinted, tell them that I have probably 100's and it would be so a real problem.

  Hello

  Do the following before upgrade you to Windows 8/8.1.

  Check if the manufacturer of your computer/laptop has Windows 8/8.1 drivers available for your model.

  If this is not available, Windows 8/8.1 not install and work properly for you.

  There is a lot of information in this first link from Microsoft:

  Download and run the Windows Upgrade Assistant 8.1 of to see if your machine is compatible Windows 8.1 and read the update for Windows 8.1: FAQ here

  :

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-8/upgrade-to-Windows-8

  "8.1 for Windows system requirements.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-8/system-requirements

  See you soon.

• 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.

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

  BACKGROUND:

  I have a Dell Studio 540 in Windows Vista Ultimate which suddenly crashed, then wouldn't restart, saying: "no available boot device." Apparently, the hard drive boot sector had been corrupted. After of the painstaking efforts to save as many as possible training and have unsuccessfully using CHKDSK or Seagate tools to repair the drive, I finally resorted to a clean reinstall using the Dell OEM Windows Vista reinstallation disc. I chose the option to move all old files/folders in a folder Windows.old and I am now able to start Windows. However, all settings prerequisites, programs, files and folders from the previous installation are still in the Windows.old folder. For now, I run a full CHKDSK again (and he says 'Corrupt file attribute Deleting the file record segment X X' so I hope that some repairs happens)...
  But what I would do, if possible and if it will not cause problems, use the instructions in this MS support article "how to restore a computer to a previous Windows installation after you install Windows Vista." But before I do that, my question is the following:
  QUESTION:
  If I had to do a reinstall of Vista due to damage/corruption of the hard drive, and if all what information has been moved to the folder Windows.old during this process, is it possible that restore the folder Windows.old to the previous installation would restore any damage/corruption existed, thus causing the problem to return or make things worse? Or should I not worry about the restoration of the old "problem"?

  Hello

  You can use the restore feature if the previous installation was good.

  It is not in your case; If this isn't an option for you.

  You can use the windows.old folder to retrieve your data.

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

  But the programs must be reinstalled form the original media.

  And when you're done with the windows.olf folder you can delete.

  "How to use the disk cleanup feature to delete the Windows.old folder after you install Windows Vista"

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/930527

  And it is perhaps an idea to run Dell Diagnostics and eventually replace your drive hard if it comes up with errors.

  http://support.Dell.com/support/eDOCS/systems/WS340/en/UG/DIAGS.htm

  See you soon.

• Recovery windows.old folder

  Since I currently have Vista (I have windows 7 just not want to update) I upgraded to Home Premium to Ultimate and I got a windows.old folder. Given that I was running out of HD space I used the disc cleaner or wat ever u call it and clicked on all the boxes. After that, I stopped and went away. Today, I watched a lot of forums and I found no help. Has spent more than 2 hours to research and nothing. I even checked and nothing http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932912 . PC that I use is a copy of imac averatec

  Hi GaryUnn,

  ·         You have all important data in the windows.old folder?

  Windows.Old folder contains the filesystem of your old operating system. Given that you used disk cleaner and removed you cannot get it back.

  You can always use any third-party software from your favorite search engine.

  Warning: Using third-party software, including hardware drivers can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the use of third-party software can be solved. Software using third party is at your own risk.

  I hope this helps.

• modification of Windows.old folder and I lost all my old photos

  Changing my windows.old folder and I lost all my old photos, how do I retrieve the? the only folder in windows.old is winsxs...

  Hello

  What do you mean she has changed?

  read this on how data are supposed to be retrieved from 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

  If you have lost data, you can try this

  http://www.Piriform.com/Recuva

  If the above does not work:

  Try the data recovery experts

  but they are very expensive

• Remove the My Documents Windows.old folder

  I tried unsuccessfully to delete the windows.old folder and files. I used cleaning disc, using the rd as an administrator, even went safe mode but all without success. It is said several times that I'm not allowed to delete many files. Any help would be greatly appreciated this folder takes over 12 GB of my drive.

  Here is another method that I found for you. It seems to fit to your not having is not the scenario of permission. Open the link below, the 1st half is not good because you have already tried it.
  Scroll down the page until you see:
  Alternatively, you can also use a command prompt to delete files and folders from an earlier installation of Windows Vista.
  Start from there. Here is the link : http://www.winvistaclub.com/f36.html

  Note: in case you don't know what's guest...
  Start button > Search box, type cmd > right click on cmd.exe in the upper part, click Run as administrator.
  Now, try to follow the instructions in the link.
  Important: You will be asked to 'type' a few lines of command... Do not.
  Copy and paste the command line instead of the.
  Good luck.

  I've never had to do. If you have any problem with the instructions, I may or may not be able to help.
  Just to let you know.

  t-4-2

• How can I load Windows Mail on Win 7 system of the windows.old folder

  How can I load Windows Mail on Win 7 system of the windows.old file win7 made during installation.

  Windows 7 does not include an email Client.

  You have great choices of Email client
  MS Outlook (continued from part of MS Office)
  Windows Live Mail
  Thunderbird

  To download and install Windows Live Mail:
  http://download.live.com/wlmail
  During installation, you will receive a list of programs to install, choose "E-mail" buy uncheck all items except "Mail".

  Mail from Vista to Windows 7 Live Mail:
  Look for the following folders in the Windows.old folder.

  (1) find the program files > Windows Mail
  (2) copy all files and folders in Windows Mail folder to a new folder (name the folder: VistaMailExport)
  (3) in Windows Live Mail, use the "Import" and point to the folder "VistaMailExport".

  Import your emails, contacts and calendar in Windows Live Mail
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/importing-your-e-mail-contacts-and-calendar-into-Windows-Live-Mail

  Thunderbird:
  http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-us/Thunderbird/

  Public discussion group Windows Live Mail:
  News://msnews.Microsoft.com/Microsoft.public.Windows.live.mail.desktop

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  http://www.PAGESTART.com

  Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world to help.