After installing Windows 10, Roy A. Day discovered a very large Windows.old folder on his internal drive. Since deleting it the conventional way didn’t work, he asked for another solution. The Windows 10 upgrade (which so many are enthusiastically embracing despite my warnings ) leaves a huge Windows.old folder on your C: drive. On one computer I updated, it was over 25GB. And Windows won’t let you simply delete it. There’s a very good reason why you shouldn’t. Without this folder, you will not be able to go back to Windows 7 or 8.1. Therefore, you should only remove Windows.old if one of these three situations applies to you: You’re absolutely sure you want to stay with Windows 10. You created an image backup before the upgrade, and can therefore restore your previous installation without Windows 10’s built-in tools. It’s been more than 30 days since you made the upgrade, and Windows 10 will no longer allow you to go back. If you meet one of those conditi...
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