JuanTLlibre
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It should be an option to clean install
did you boot from CD or run setup from inside Windows?
If you search on this board "clean install with upgrade media" without
the quotes and do a little digging you will find detailed instructions on how to perform it.
Perhaps there was some mistake is this technet
download of the RTM/GA or a leaked supposed RTM from a torrent site?
Because with a format and clean install these folders should not be created.
You can delete these folders
but you first have to change the permissions to allow your user full control
and often if you have trouble changing permissions you have to take
ownership of the files (all from the security tab in the folder properties)
I installed RTM (x86), and did a "fresh install".
When setup was done, I went to delete Windows.old and Windows.000.
Windows.000 deleted OK.
Windows.old ( which has /Windows and /Program Files directories in it ) won't delete.
The OS keeps telling me I need "Trusted Installer" permission to do that.
BIG problem...since there's about 8 GB (almost 50,000 files ) clogging up the hard drive.
I tried changing the permissions on the directories (they are read-only) but the system won't let me.
I tried formatting the drive from another installation, but it refuses to format the partition.
Apparently, I'm stuck in a limbo in which I am left powerless.
Why can't setup accept the instruction to do a clean install
without saving a bunch of old garbage to windows.old ?
Why isn't that option (clean install, full-format and don't save anything) available to the user when setup runs ?
What do I have to do to recover the 8GB space which I have lost ?
Very true Radenight but I can count for sure two of these (today) since RTM release to Beta testers and i know there were more i just can't confirm them without heavy digging. Either something weird is going on or we are experiencing an epidemic of people mistaking a clean install for an upgrade in place (highly possible as well now that i put it into words.).If you have the windows.old folder then you didn't do a "fresh install"..If you had done a clean install that folder wouldn't exist..
If you have the windows.old folder then you didn't do a "fresh install".. If you had done a clean install that folder wouldn't exist..
Unzip and run the attached file. The "Take ownership.reg "will create a right click option. Right click the windows.old directory and, of course, take ownership. You should then be able to delete the folder.
Try this
In windows.old folder
Properties> Advanced> Change Permissions> select user, edit> select Full Control, apply
hope this helps