Comments on: Vista: Remove Old XP Files after Upgrade (Windows.old)

By: aricka

aricka — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:07:20 +0000

my laptop is only 2-3 months old it came with Vista home premium i have never downloaded any new or old versions EVER!!!! but yet my hp health check keeps saying i should do a disk clean up well i did it several times(i should note that there is no option to remove old versions like it says on the health check)and deleted everything except the hibernation mode option, i also searched for it on my computer says it doesnt exist and i have the show hidden files option turned on too im doing a disk defrag right now but as of yet my hp health check still says the problem isnt resolved...what is going on???? please email me @ blister.in.the.sun@hotmail.com if you know (RE: windows.old or i will just delete it thank you!!!!)

By: chappie

chappie — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:15:48 +0000

ramya, as an admin on vista bring up the properties of your old stuff folder. rightclick. look at the security tab, choose advanced, look at owner tab, make yourself/current admin the owner, ok your way out.
you now own it so you can have your way..

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:32:19 +0000

I delete everything in the windows.old folder and i did the disc cleanup and it removed it, but i still have the folder windows.old. when i want to delete it says something about it dosnt exist and then it stays. any help

By: ramya

ramya — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:24:50 +0000

In my drive D, I have old documents and setting, a WINDOWS folder , a program files folder etc from my XP. I am unable to get rid of them inspite of doing all this… and the owner rights change etc.. Its taking up 20GB! Help…

By: Luis

Luis — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:50:26 +0000

thanks alot for your help very useful info