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Deleting windows.old
I have a Dell Dimension E521 that works fine. It shipped with Windows XP, which I upgraded to Vista when it came out; later I upgraded to Windows 7 when that came out. I want to know whether I could delete the "windows.old" file without doing any damage. Some of the files I skipped over as there was a warning that deleting this or that might compromise programs running, etc. I am in the habit of doing a clean installation of the operating system every year.
Jesse L (retired)
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Posted October 6th, 2010 12:00
rivieraranch,
Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.
You can delete the.old files in Windows 7 by going to disk cleanup. Below are some instructions that may be helpful.
Click on Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disc Cleanup
When the dialog box comes up, select the drive that has the .old files on it and click OK
The system then scans for the files to be cleaned up and another dialog box opens with the selection. Click on the button labeled Clean up system files at the bottom of that dialog box.
Another dialog box will come up, select the drive again that has the .old files on it. The system will perform another scan for the system files that need to be cleaned up.
After scanning, another dialog box opens up and there you will find a list of check boxes. Scroll through and check on the box labeled Older versions of Windows and click OK .
Jesse L (retired)