windows old

Recently I reinstalled windows 7 Ultimate. So, I got one of those "windows.old" folders with all my old stuff in it. I take all my stuff out, but for some reason it wont let me delete the windows old folder. It says "This is no longer located in C:\ Verify the items location and try again"...

Hi. A couple of weeks ago I allowed Windows Update to load SP1 for W7 unintentionally of course as i know I should have backed up first. Cut to the chase it screwed my system and my laptop would not reboot indicating SP1 was still installing. I had W7 ultimate Installation/upgrade disk and...

I installed Windows 7 on a clean hard drive with only one user account and password. After installing McAfee, the Windows password was not recognized, and all I could do was reinstall Windows and I did this without assigning a password. I could not solve the problem in Safe Mode. I see a folder...

Hi, I am Kishore here. I was using Windows Vista till yesterday and last evening I have installed new OS 'Windows 7' in C drive. Now in my C drive, I have 'Windows' folder and 'windows.old'. Here, I would like to know what is the 'windows.old' folder and can I remove that folder? Please help...

This program seems to have arrived with my win 7 Ultimate. Everytime I try to use my (very old MS Office) Office Enterprise tries to install itself. I'm not keen on a newer version, but I'd be prepared to let it install. Only....the install fails, saying it is missing EnterpriseWW.msi. I...

Hello Everybody, I just recently loaded Windows 7 after my RC copy was set to expire. I need to remove the windows old folder. I can't see it in control panel. Is there a way to delete the files? Thanks' Power User57

I bought the upgrade Windows 7 Professional and did a custom install over my 32bit windows XP. The instalation/upgrade was perfectly successful. No problems there. I just have a question about the file called WindowsOld that was created when I did the custom instalation. It contains all the old...

Today i installed windows 7 64 bit using the custom install option. I had vista 32 bit before i installed windows seven so i thought the installation would do a clean installation and delete everything on my disk drive except the windows 7 os. But when it was done, i still had my old files...

I got a discount price on a win7 upgrade cause I am in college. I had 32bit vista. I chose the 64bit win7 upgrade cause my pc can handle it easily. I understand to go from 32 to 64 a clean install is needed. So today I did the upgrade, and thought I did a clean install. I have two hard...

I've just changed to 64 bit from my previous 32 bit system via a clean install. My question. Is it OK to delete the "Windows Old" file which takes up 60gb on my hard drive? I have done this before and it was OK, I just wondered if there was an issue with the transfer to 64 bit format.

what is good and not good to keep after instaling windows 7

Was running Vista Home 32 bit system. I always had problems with Vista so I wanted to upgrade to 7 ASAP. I never could get the upgrade advisior to run, I couldn't load 7 in as an upgrade either. I always got and error. I had all of my data backed up on a external so last night I did the...

When I installed Windows 7 on top of XP, it seems that my audio drivers were just not found, and the audio icon appears with a big red X. I click this red X in order to see if it can solve the issue, but it does not, and returns a "hardware changes may not have been detected". Device manager...

I recently, like many people upgraded to Windows 7, it created a file called "windows.old" in which all my files from Vista were saved. I tried to access Office, specifically PowerPoint. It comes up with an error message "The Operating System is not presently configured to run theis...

This is what I get when I try to copy a file from the backup dvd i made when I was still using XP. I double checked that the disk was working properly and the files were there OK by opening the file in another computer using XP and another using Vista. After getting too excited and stupidly...

Trying to do a back up to a portable HD 250 GB I'm told insufficent room! Looking at Windows I see files Windows Old that is 63 GB and Windows Old 000 that is 36 GB in size - can someone enlighten me on these, what they are they for? are they necessary? and can they be got rid of? :confused:

I am hoping there is some small chance here. In anticipation for installing Windows 7 on my main drive I installed my new 1TB SATA drive as secondary under XP, formatted it and moved files to it. I had no problems accessing anything so I didn't think there would be any problem when I tried the...

A simple question; I backed up all my files before installing Windows 7 RC. The installation made a film called Windows old that takes up 46GB. Can this file be deleted without harm to my system?

If I put the drivers from system32 in the windows.old folder into the windows 7 drivers folder...would that help some drivers be seen properly? Can I do that? or will that cause errors?

In my C:, I have 2 folders. One is called windows and the other is windows.old. Is this normal? Do I need to keep the .old one? Please let me know. I am hoping a few different people can answer me. thx