Windows 10: How to delete WindowsApps.old folder?

Well it should not have crashed at all.....but glad your folder is removed.
I have Never seen it crash actually.....

 

When I deleted that folder I had a window that told me that was not possible for such an error, then the screen flashes, then everything blank, then the tool was back but the icon of the desktop was strange (with a square black inside them).

 

PS: that tool that I *simply* copy into a FAT32 pen drive, without RUFUS or else, that it worked immediately in UEFI... I don't understand.

If I had a not-UEFI BIOS what would happen? It starts the same? Or it want an NTFS file system instead?

Also, if I take a Win 10 ISO (from M$ website) and I simply COPY into a FAT32 pen it will work too? And in not-UEFI?

Please clarify these things I am very courios and sorry for the "off-topic"!

PPS: the tool "see" my first partition S.O. but not the second. Actually I have TWO win 10 in TWO different HDD inside the same machine. WHy the tool see only the first and not the second?

 

If you were booted and running from your USB stick, it should not have crashed, very strange. *Confused

 

Yes UEFI you need to format the usb stick to fat32
If your system is not UEFI than format that stick to NTFS .....some are already formatted that way actually.

Yes again, you can do that with any ISO ....including Windows ISO *Smile

You last question ....I don't understand....your running 2 different versions of Windows on the SAME drive but just on a different partition?? ....that could lead to trouble, I would use a separate drive. But, I don't know why it is not seen, sorry.

 

If just a copy to a correctly formatted usb stick is enough for uefi and for legacy, what Rufus was created for? I used for years knowing it was necessary *Devil

Why instead for linux based tools is nevessary to "activate" the bootable stuff with an internal tool?

just technical curiosity.

 

Nothing wrong with Unlocker. I use it all the time when I have files or folders I can't delete. Just tell it to delete on the next boot and it almost always works. Ditto for a rename.

You can also use Longpath Tool.