How to Delete Windows.old and $Windows.~BT folders in Windows 10  

Thank you, very helpful, it works on me with disk cleanup,,
I have very big size windows old (about 20Gb), cause reinstall too much (try some build win10) witout fresh install

Brink said:

Owner of Files and Folders - Change in Windows 10
Take Ownership - Add to Context Menu in Windows 10

These finally worked for me, thank you very much!

Gary said:

Take ownership of it and then run Disk Cleanup as an Admin. That worked for me.


https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

Cheers. This finally worked. After taking ownership, you can even just delete it like any other folder. Saved 16GB on my dads (who is 82 yrs) laptop.

Couldn't remove it until I did a system restore an tried cleanmgr again.

Oh well, at least its gone now!

Hi Guys

I cannot delete some files even though i have followed all the tutorials

See files that will not move Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10240] (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All right - Pastebin.com

Brink said:

Hello thorrr, :)

Did you take ownership, and try again?

Hi Brink i have tried 4 times taking ownership but this lot will not move