re: Can't delete windows.old folder Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 4:58 pm Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Athena (1 messages posted) The Disk Cleanup option also works in Windows 7 but you need to chose System Files first so that Windows scans the previous installation folders and the option shows in the Files to Clean options On Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:10 pm, Dexter273 wrote: >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 :) Written in response to: Can't delete windows.old folder (Dexter273: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 3:10 pm) Responses to this message: re: Can't delete windows.old folder (le giang: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 9:42 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