Vista - How to remove Old Windows folder

Any one know how to remove the old windows folder

One thing that worked for me - try going into the Windows.old folder and
copying the folders within into another folder that you create on the
desktop. It'll let you move the files fine (but not delete), so if you go
into the folder on your desktop where you moved them, you can delete them.

Strage I know, but that worked for me. On my other machine, taking ownership
worked for it.

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"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> You could try a combination of things, format the partition its on, take
> ownership of the folder, log into the Administrator account in Safe mode
> and try deleting the file.
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> "Tony" <tballa02@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>> Any one know how to remove the old windows folder
>>
>
>

You could try a combination of things, format the partition its on, take
ownership of the folder, log into the Administrator account in Safe mode and
try deleting the file.
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"Tony" <tballa02@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Any one know how to remove the old windows folder
>

Tried all that no go
Signed as admin and still cant

"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> One thing that worked for me - try going into the Windows.old folder and
> copying the folders within into another folder that you create on the
> desktop. It'll let you move the files fine (but not delete), so if you go
> into the folder on your desktop where you moved them, you can delete them.
>
> Strage I know, but that worked for me. On my other machine, taking
> ownership worked for it.
>
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> Zack Whittaker
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> not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
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> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OwHj7pQWGHA.2080@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> You could try a combination of things, format the partition its on, take
>> ownership of the folder, log into the Administrator account in Safe mode
>> and try deleting the file.
>> --
>> --
>> Andre
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>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
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>>
>> "Tony" <tballa02@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:3AD066C3-2176-4C92-9512-8D721F749441@microsoft.com...
>>> Any one know how to remove the old windows folder
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

If you can manage to delete everything inside the folder - what I had to do
was just hide the Windows.old (and the Windows.old.000...) folder so that it
wouldn't appear!

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"t" <a@a.com> wrote in message news:Ox$WJWYWGHA.3660@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Tried all that no go
> Signed as admin and still cant
>
> "Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:eV52g6QWGHA.4572@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> One thing that worked for me - try going into the Windows.old folder and
>> copying the folders within into another folder that you create on the
>> desktop. It'll let you move the files fine (but not delete), so if you go
>> into the folder on your desktop where you moved them, you can delete
>> them.
>>
>> Strage I know, but that worked for me. On my other machine, taking
>> ownership worked for it.
>>
>> --
>> Zack Whittaker
>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
>> not
>> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
>> that up!
>>
>> --: Original message follows :--
>> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:OwHj7pQWGHA.2080@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> You could try a combination of things, format the partition its on, take
>>> ownership of the folder, log into the Administrator account in Safe mode
>>> and try deleting the file.
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Andre
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>>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
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>>>
>>> "Tony" <tballa02@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>>> news:3AD066C3-2176-4C92-9512-8D721F749441@microsoft.com...
>>>> Any one know how to remove the old windows folder
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Zack Whittaker wrote:
> If you can manage to delete everything inside the folder - what I had to do
> was just hide the Windows.old (and the Windows.old.000...) folder so that it
> wouldn't appear!
>

I used robocopy to mirror an empty folder over the top of it.

Tried all of that and still no go
Have very little hard drive space left on that drive it is a 30gig and with
all my family photo and movies on that drive there is no room after Vista
5342 installed. I only have 3gigs left so it is running very slow. The
machine is a P4 3200 64bit unit with two 512 matched sticks of ram and 1
30gig 7200 RPM and 2 80gig 7200 RPM drives that run and host my web site and
others.
so I dont want to put anything on those drives from the 30gig

They should have a way in vista to remove the old files.
That is going to be a problem when people install vista on there systems I
think. I did not do the upgrade I should have now I think.

"Mike Williams" <mikew@m-v-p-s.org.null> wrote in message
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> Zack Whittaker wrote:
>> If you can manage to delete everything inside the folder - what I had to
>> do was just hide the Windows.old (and the Windows.old.000...) folder so
>> that it wouldn't appear!
>>
>
> I used robocopy to mirror an empty folder over the top of it.

I took ownership of it, then deleted in in safe mode (some files were still
locked in normal mode)
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"Tony" <tballa02@sympatico.ca> a écrit dans le message de news:
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| Any one know how to remove the old windows folder
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This is from the release notes:
"You can use the custom installation option to install Windows Server
"Longhorn." There are two ways to perform this type of installation. One way
is to install Windows Server "Longhorn" onto a partition that already
contains an operating system. The existing files and settings are then moved
into a folder named "Windows.old." After the installation is complete, you
must manually delete the old files and settings. If you do not want to save
the old operating system files and settings, you can reformat the partition
during Setup. Either way, you must reinstall your programs when Setup is
complete.
The other way is to install Windows Server "Longhorn" on a different
partition. You should use this approach if you want to have more than one
operating system on the same computer. We strongly recommend that you use
this approach because it allows you to access your old operating system."

http://www.win-vista.net/builds/5342/setup_server.htm
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"t" <a@a.com> wrote in message news:uYb2i1aWGHA.4768@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Tried all of that and still no go
> Have very little hard drive space left on that drive it is a 30gig and
> with all my family photo and movies on that drive there is no room after
> Vista 5342 installed. I only have 3gigs left so it is running very slow.
> The machine is a P4 3200 64bit unit with two 512 matched sticks of ram and
> 1 30gig 7200 RPM and 2 80gig 7200 RPM drives that run and host my web site
> and others.
> so I dont want to put anything on those drives from the 30gig
>
> They should have a way in vista to remove the old files.
> That is going to be a problem when people install vista on there systems I
> think. I did not do the upgrade I should have now I think.
>
> "Mike Williams" <mikew@m-v-p-s.org.null> wrote in message
> news:44355E52.6090406@m-v-p-s.org.null...
>> Zack Whittaker wrote:
>>> If you can manage to delete everything inside the folder - what I had to
>>> do was just hide the Windows.old (and the Windows.old.000...) folder so
>>> that it wouldn't appear!
>>>
>>
>> I used robocopy to mirror an empty folder over the top of it.
>
>