After installing Windows 10, Roy A. Day discovered a very large Windows.old folder on his internal drive. Since deleting it the conventional way didn’t work, he asked for another solution. The Windows ...

If a few files stay locked, Safe Mode usually makes cleanup easier because update components aren’t running there. I didn’t need it, but it’s a useful fallback. After the cleanup, Windows behaved ...

Many people don’t bother to delete old files on their PC and so they keep accumulating, only to give you a headache afterwards in terms of storage problems. It’s always good practice to delete old ...

I'm using Windows 7. I installed it on a separate hard drive from my old OS, Vista 64. I can't delete the Windows or Program Files folder on the old (Vista) hard drive. I get a message telling me I ...