Can't delete windows.old folder Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:10 pm Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dexter273 (2 messages posted) I just recently manually installed Windows 7 and the installation appears to have gone smoothly, but the only problem is I can't seem to get rid of my windows.old folder which still has all my old programs and files (about 140+ gigs). Microsoft help says you can easily do it through disk cleanup, but when I try that, it doesn't even give me the option of deleting the windows.old folder. When I try to manually delete the folder I get all sorts of administration errors saying I can't do that, or that only SYSTEM is allowed to make changes. I'm hardly a computer wiz, so simple explanations are appreciated :) Responses to this message: re: Can't delete windows.old folder (Bongzki: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 1:13 pm) re: Can't delete windows.old folder (Bongzki: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 1:38 pm) re: Can't delete windows.old folder (Athena: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 4:58 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Can't delete windows.old folder (Dexter273: Wed, Jul 1, 2009, 3:10 pm) re: Can't delete windows.old folder (Bongzki: Thu, Jul 2, 2009, 1:13 pm) re: Can't delete windows.old folder (Bongzki: Thu, Jul 2, 2009, 1:38 pm) re: Can't delete windows.old folder (Dexter273: Thu, Jul 2, 2009, 3:16 pm) re: Can't delete windows.old folder (David: Sat, Jul 4, 2009, 10:00 am) re: Can't delete windows.old folder (Athena: Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 4:58 pm) re: Can't delete windows.old folder (le giang: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 9:42 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 7 Discussion Forum