How to delete windows.old.000 in windows 7

I wanna totally thank you for that answer because you just helped me get rid of Monday, March 22, AM. I deleted it like any other folder and left it going all night since it takes a while. Now I can't boot into Windows 7. It just stays at my motherboard screen. Wednesday, March 24, AM. INDIA 0. Saturday, May 8, AM. Thursday, May 13, PM. Thank god and the awesome ms team for this. Mine was taking up gb and i had 2 versions of windows. Thank you a lot. Wednesday, June 23, AM. Saturday, June 26, PM.

Saturday, July 10, PM. This doesnt work for me. Sunday, July 18, PM. Wednesday, July 21, PM. Perfect but it must be stressed that the. Monday, July 26, AM. Well, i used a utility to take control of the windows. It worked Proposed as answer by steve Friday, September 3, AM. Tuesday, August 24, AM. Worked perfectly!

Believe it or not I freed up gb from 2 installs! Sunday, September 26, PM. Friday, October 1, AM. It does work. Wednesday, October 6, PM. I knew I had 72GBs of disk space in Windows. Thanks, Norm. Friday, November 19, PM. Ahh, finally! Found a way to get rid of it! Thursday, December 23, PM. Tuesday, January 4, AM. Thanks helped me out a treat. I will mostly being clean installs from now on. Much easyier. Tuesday, January 4, PM.

This almost works. Cacls has been deprecated to be replaced by Icacls. With that change, it works like a charm. Thursday, January 13, PM. Done what you have written out for Windows 7 and it works perfectly. Thanks mate here's a beer on me! Tuesday, January 18, PM. I found that the disk cleanup method didn't work for me but this did: Disable UAC, reboot.

Start the command prompt as admin. This deletes all the files in the folder regardless of the names. Exit the command prompt. In explorer the files are now gone, delete the folders as normal, re-activate UAC and re-boot. Job done. Tuesday, January 25, AM. Monday, February 7, AM. Thanks so much i was running on Windows 7 Home Premium and i upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate and i had 80GB left now I have got GB it took about 10 mins you have to scan your drive 2 times aswell.

Saturday, March 5, AM. Friday, March 11, AM. Friday, March 18, AM. On windows 7 just go to disk clean up and down bottom select clean system files and then you will see the option to deletes windows.

Wednesday, April 13, PM. Thanks, I never thought to try that. Worked great. Saturday, May 14, AM. In case you try to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 or Windows 7 to Windows 10 and it fails, you can always revert back to Windows Vista or 7 safely. The only issue with this is that every time the install fails, another copy of the previous OS is copied into Windows. So, if your upgrade install failed 2 or 3 times, that Windows. On top of that, the folder is not automatically deleted once you are up and running with the newer version of Windows, so you have to get rid of it yourself.

Note : Removing the Windows. You will have to stick with the new version of Windows. Also, the Windows. So how do you get rid of the folder? Well, you have to use the Disk Cleanup utility! The first method will describe how to delete the Windows. If you are in Windows Vista still, follow the second set of instructions. First, open Disk Cleanup via the Start Menu click Start and type in disk cleanup and when the dialog pops up, choose the drive that has the.

This is normally just the C drive. Once you are certain everything has been copied over successfully, you can right click and delete the Windows. Before you use Disk Cleanup, make sure that all of your files and settings are in Windows 7 where you expect them to be. Deleting the Windows. Open Disk Cleanup by clicking the Start button. In the search box, type Disk Cleanup , and then, in the list of results, click Disk Cleanup.

If you're prompted to choose a drive, click the drive you just installed Windows on, and then click OK. If you're again prompted to choose a drive, click the drive you just installed Windows on, and then click OK. Select the Previous Windows installation s check box, and any other check boxes for the files you want to delete, and then click OK.

In the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue. Note When you run this command, you are granted ownership of the administrator group for the folder, of all the subdirectories in the folder, and of all the files in the folder. Note When you run this command, administrators are granted full rights to all files and to all folders. Original Title:windows old, windows old. This thread is locked.