Windows 10: Windows.old folder appears after first Windows 10 update

I bought a netbook earlier in the week and it came with Windows 10 pre installed. Everything was fine but during the first round of updates (one of which was named 'Windows Home' something or other) it restarted my PC and looked to be clean installing Windows 10, as if updating from Windows 7 or 8. It took way, way longer than a normal update and I've seen this done on my PC and it looks like this: http://tualatinweb.com/new/wp-conten...ng-windows.jpg

And now I have a windows.old folder as if a new operating system is now running and I now have way less space on my 32GB drive. Not only this, but there is now no visible record of any of the other updates installed previous to the 'Windows Home', except for a few 'updates' I am able to remove that were installed before the laptop was even built. It has me worried that my system has somehow been compromised. Now I can't even access the Update section of settings.

This can't be normal, can it?

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Windows 10 Upgrade Desktop Files

I am helping someone who upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7, but did not back up their files. Once the update was done, they moved files from the Windows.old folder to the desktop, but now all of those files are gone. After some research it appears
Windows 10 creates a temp profile when you first update, then deletes it. How can I recover those files that were moved to the desktop? They are no longer on the Desktop or in the Windows.old folder. If I go back to Windows 7 will those files come back? Or
do I need to try to use recovery programs?

 

Does anything happens if i delete the folder "windows.old"?

Actually my first OS was windows 8 and i upgraded it to 8.1, now 8.1 to 10. after i tried to delete windows.old folder only my windows 8.1 folder only deleted, and windows 8 folder still remains(i think so, am not sure about this) now i can't delete remain
windows.old folder any other option to delete that windows.old folder too?? any one please help.

 

Perfectly normal - pc just upgraded itself to build 10586 from old build 10240. PC has probably just been sitting on shelf a few months.

Run disk cleanup, select to remove old system files, and click all boxes in pop up list.

The update list is reset at build upgrade.

Incidentally, same will happen soon when new version is rolled out starting Aug 2nd.

 

Thank you.