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 ...

L. Stewart Peirce has upgraded to Windows 7. Can he safely move Windows.old to another drive? When you upgrade XP or Vista to Windows 7 with the Custom (Advanced) option, the installation program puts ...

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 ...

If you upgraded to Windows 11 or Windows 10, from Windows 8.1 or Windows 7, the new operating system allows you to rollback Windows 11/10 to your previous version, provided you carry out the rollback ...

Microsoft has warned Windows 10 and Windows 11 users that files might not be deleted after resetting the device using the "Remove everything" option. The issue stems from Microsoft's OneDrive cloud ...