NOTE: Replace C:\Windows.old with the actual path to the Windows.old folder you want to remove, if it’s not in C: drive. Enter the commands below each line at a time. Right-click Command Prompt and then select Run as administrator. To do this, go to start menu and search for CMD. If both methods above fail to remove the Windows.old folder from your drive, or that the Previous Windows Installation option doesn’t show up in Disk Cleanup tool in Windows 10, here’s a manual way to remove the folder by using a series of commands in Command Prompt. Upon completion of the removal process, the Windows.old folder should be deleted.ĭelete old Windows folder manually with CMD Then, scroll back up and click on the Remove files button. Select it and, alternatively, you can select other temporary files that you may want to remove together. Scroll down to look for an option called “ Previous Windows Installation(s)“. Within the list of storage usage, select Temporary files. In the right panel, select the drive where the Windows.old folder is located. Select Storage (system settings) from the search result. Then, head over to the start menu and search for Storage. Similar to the method above, you will have to first rename the Windows folder that you want to remove to Windows.old. If the Disk Cleanup tool in Windows 10 doesn’t work to remove the Windows.old folder (stuck or crashes during calculating or cleaning process), you can instead use the Storage sense in the Windows 10 Settings app to remove the folder. After the process is completed, the Windows folder should be gone.ĭelete Windows.old using Storage in Settings app It may take a couple of minutes to complete the removal. Under Files to delete section, select the option for Previous Windows Installation(s). Select the drive where your Windows.old folder is located, then click OK.
Right-click it and then select Run as administrator. This step is important as it is required for Disk Cleanup tool to detect there is an old Windows folder that can be removed.Īfter renaming the folder, go to start menu or Cortana, search for Disk Cleanup tool. On the drive where the Windows folder that you want to delete resides, right-click on the folder and rename it to Windows.old.
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