Win 10 1809 upgrade and delete windows.old


  1. speedlever
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    Windows 10 Pro x64
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    Win 10 1809 upgrade and delete windows.old


    I have recently updated several laptops of varying performance capabilities to Win10 1809. I decided to clean up one old laptop running a core i7-3520M cpu/8GB ram so I could clone the HD to a SSD. Disk cleanup is taking hours to clean up the windows.old file. Is this normal on a standard HDD?

    In that same vein, I have a newer laptop running Win 10 on an m.2 SSD with a core i7-7700HQ cpu./16 GB ram. It is also taking a long time to process the file removal of windows.old.

    Any idea why this tends to be such a lengthy process, regardless the power of the system?
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  3. Soapm
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    Win10
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    I also noticed a Windows.old directory, can I just delete it or is there a tool that deletes it? How do you get rid of it?
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  4. zbook
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    windows 10 professional version 1607 build 14393.969 64 bit
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    The windows old is automatically deleted in 10 days.

    It can be deleted manually.

    Delete Windows.old Folder in Windows 10 | Tutorials

    These were displayed as potential problems with the attempted deletion:

    If the Windows.old folder was unable to be removed using either option below, then take ownership of the Windows.old folder and all contents, and try again.

    Owner of Files and Folders - Change in Windows 10
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