Windows Old

I updated from xp home to vista premium. I thought I was doing a clean
install but noticed there was a "Windows Old" file around 3G's. Is it safe
to delete this? I guess this is the data backup from the Vista update.

I am using 60G out of 111G harddrive. To me this seems like a lot of space
being used for no more than I have. I believe before, xp used around 20 or
so G's. Other then pictures and a little music, not much else is on my
harddrive.

Any comments appreciated.

Mary;774522 Wrote:
> I updated from xp home to vista premium. I thought I was doing a clean
> install but noticed there was a "Windows Old" file around 3G's. Is it
> safe
> to delete this? I guess this is the data backup from the Vista update.
>
> I am using 60G out of 111G harddrive. To me this seems like a lot of
> space
> being used for no more than I have. I believe before, xp used around 20
> or
> so G's. Other then pictures and a little music, not much else is on my
> harddrive.
>
> Any comments appreciated.

Hi Mary,

You can run Disk Cleanup and check the left over upgrade install files
option to get rid of it.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...k-cleanup.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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Hi Mary,

Yes, you did a clean install. The windows.old folder is the remnant of the
XP installation, and you can safely delete it. Vista creates this folder
when there is an existing install to a C:\Windows folder. The old
installation is moved to it, then a new Windows folder is create as part of
setup. This is done to allow the user to recover files from the original
system folders.

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"Mary " <m@bridge.7NT> wrote in message
news:3BEF1A32-8B3E-4F2E-B193-1CBC5F2CD296@microsoft.com...
>I updated from xp home to vista premium. I thought I was doing a clean
>install but noticed there was a "Windows Old" file around 3G's. Is it safe
>to delete this? I guess this is the data backup from the Vista update.
>
> I am using 60G out of 111G harddrive. To me this seems like a lot of
> space being used for no more than I have. I believe before, xp used
> around 20 or so G's. Other then pictures and a little music, not much
> else is on my harddrive.
>
> Any comments appreciated.

Thank you all, it's deleted.


"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:es8YiFJ5IHA.4448@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi Mary,
>
> Yes, you did a clean install. The windows.old folder is the remnant of the
> XP installation, and you can safely delete it. Vista creates this folder
> when there is an existing install to a C:\Windows folder. The old
> installation is moved to it, then a new Windows folder is create as part
> of setup. This is done to allow the user to recover files from the
> original system folders.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Mary " <m@bridge.7NT> wrote in message
> news:3BEF1A32-8B3E-4F2E-B193-1CBC5F2CD296@microsoft.com...
>>I updated from xp home to vista premium. I thought I was doing a clean
>>install but noticed there was a "Windows Old" file around 3G's. Is it
>>safe to delete this? I guess this is the data backup from the Vista
>>update.
>>
>> I am using 60G out of 111G harddrive. To me this seems like a lot of
>> space being used for no more than I have. I believe before, xp used
>> around 20 or so G's. Other then pictures and a little music, not much
>> else is on my harddrive.
>>
>> Any comments appreciated.
>
>