tacwalker

I must add that if you did a clean install of Vista over XP (on the same
partition) you might need the windows.old folder to boot into XP.

tac

"tacwalker" wrote:

> Are you guys taking in to consideration the contents of the folder
> "windows.old". This folder can be quite large and, assuming you have
> retrieved any files (images/documents, game stats) you need from this folder,
> it can be safely deleted.
> Windows creates the folder during and upgrade or a clean install. If you for
> any reason uninstall and re-install Windows, another folder will be created
> on the second install named windows.old.000...a third re-install
> "windows.old.001" and so on. All these folders can be responsible for a lot
> of wasteland and can be safely deleted.
>
> tac
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