Tom McDonald

I did an upgrade from XP but there is no windows.old folder anywhere. The
closest I could find was a hidden folder called $WINDOWS.~Q with 848MB in
it.

"tacwalker" <tacwalker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7F186A4D-E542-4C17-9758-3253D1991565@microsoft.com...
> 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
>