This, the first blog post, is how to remove the Windows.Old folder after an in-place upgrade of your windows operating system. Traditionally you would use Disk Cleanup – but what if you do not have Disk Cleanup on your machine and you can’t afford down time!?
1. Take Ownership of the folder
- Right click Windows.Old and select properties, then navigate to the Security tab and click Advanced.
- Next to Owner click Change
- Type the name of the user account that will be performing the delete, click Check Names and OK
- The next part is Key: Tick the “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects” box before clicking Apply, and OK
- Once this is in place, the rest should be pretty much the same as any other folder changes
2. Add Permissions to the folder
- Right Click the Windows.old folder and select Properties then navigate to Security. Click Edit and then in the new dialogue box, click “Add”
- Search for the user, as you did in section one (Type the user account, Click Check Names, and then OK)
- Tick “Allow” for Full Control then click Apply and OK
- Click Advanced and then select Change Permissions
- In the dialogue box that appears, click Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permissions from this object and click Apply, then OK
- Click OK on all open dialogue boxes
3. Delete the folder
- Select the Windows.old Folder
- Hold down the shift key, and press delete.
- When prompted, confirm that you want to delete the folder by clicking Yes
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