Windows.old is an old system file that is automatically backed up during system updates, backups, and restorations. It is located in the C drive and takes up a lot of space. If you are sure that you do not need old system files, you can clear the disk to delete the folder and ...
takeown /F c:\windows.old\* /R /A cacls c:\windows.old\*.* /T /grant administrators:F (note had to delete, rmdir /q /s, my users directory by hand when cacls kept reporting "The system cannot find the path specified." on various files inside that directory) rmdir /S /Q c:\...
Windows.old: What exactly is this system folder? The “Windows.old” folder is a kind of backup copy of an older version of Windows. It contains the various files and settings from the previous installation of the Microsoft system which are necessary to restore the old version. Normally, ...
The previous windows installation was stored in the folder "Windows.old" The size of this folder is around 16.4 GB Run the application "cleanmgr", and "Clean up system files", you will get the select to delete the previous Windows installations, and warning you about you cannot go back to...
I then re-installed Windows using a Media Tool. This meant none of my settings vanished. I then re-installed CC and all is fine. However, when I delete, or clean my Windows.OLD it brings the error again. Cycle again. Used the cleaner tool, re-installed CC, but now when I...
You can list your files by date and then highlight the real old ones and then delete all. Otherwise you would need to review what is important or not and selectively delete. Keep a good TM backup and if you later on you determine you should not have deleted you can always restore. (...
I'm quite confused about which catalog files are current and which are old (I have version 12.2 of Lightroom Classic). In ->Pictures -> Lightroom I have - 11523261
In this example, a user-defined command Delete Old Spooled Files (DLTOLDSPLF) is created, which calls a program named DLTOLDSPLF to delete a list of old spooled files.
If you're just upgraded to Windows 7, you may notice that the old system files are still on your hard disk, taking up precious hard disk space, under C:\Windows.old. So after determining that the files are no longer needed and can be safely deleted, you try to delete them. The foll...
qBittorrent 4.1.8 on Windows 10 If on linux, libtorrent-rasterbar and Qt version 1.1.13.0 / QT 5.13.1 / Boost 1.71.0 What is the problem For the last couple of versions, qBitTorrent crashes quite often when trying to delete torrents with their files. What is the expected behavior For ...