Windows 10: How do I delete old Windows folders???

Discus and support How do I delete old Windows folders??? in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hi, I think you mean "Unlocker" Cheers, *Wink That's it! Thanks mate....now I can sleep again.... *Smile Unlocker has always worked for me, but... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by theaudioanalyst, Sep 26, 2016.

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  1. PROBE
    Probe Win User

    How do I delete old Windows folders???


    That's it! Thanks mate....now I can sleep again.... *Smile Unlocker has always worked for me, but again, be careful. It's an "equal opportunity" file deletion software. Will delete any file or folder.
     
    Probe, Oct 27, 2016
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  2. PROBE
    Probe Win User

    I always look for "portable" versions of this type of software, which are usually virus free. I did find portable Unlocker at "The Portable Freeware Collection." The link will take you to Softpedia (which I don't usually like to download from), but I did download Unlocker from there and it came up clean, which I've always found portable software to be clean of any malware or viruses.

    I just now used it to delete Windows.old with out a problem. 2 seconds and "poof" the folder was vaporized. Speaking of the Windows.old folder, mine was just a bunch of drive letters going to folders within folders, but all empty. Anyone else notice that with their Windows.old folder, just a bunch of empty sub-folders?

     
    Probe, Oct 27, 2016
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  3. BARMAN58
    Barman58 Win User
    No need to wait, this option has been on the system area of Disk Cleanup on all versions of windows for some time now, it's always been on Windows 10 anyway *Wink and it avoids a number of potential problems in using 3rd party tools
     
    Barman58, Oct 27, 2016
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  4. ADDRAM
    AddRAM Win User

    How do I delete old Windows folders???

    But if disk cleanup will not remove it there could be a very good reason why, your new version may still be relying on a driver in the windows.old folder, such as mine did until I updated my nvidia driver.
     
    AddRAM, Oct 27, 2016
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  5. FDEGROVE
    fdegrove Win User
    Hi,

    Certainly but:

    And that's the problem. It should use the driver(s) on the system proper and not the ones it moved to the Windows.old folder.
    This apparently has been resolved with the latest IP release. Works way fast too.

    Cheers, *Wink
     
    fdegrove, Apr 4, 2018
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