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Tech-Recipes: Vista: Remove Old XP Files after Upgrade (Windows.old) | Microsoft Vista | Tech-Recipes

  • Luis · 11 months ago
    thanks alot for your help very useful info
  • ramya · 10 months ago
    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...
  • chappie · 7 months ago
    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..
  • Nick · 8 months ago
    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
  • aricka · 6 months ago
    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!!!!)