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Windows Vista - Windows.old needs deletion. I'm scared to do it. posted in the Operating Systems forums; Hi guys, About a month ago I got a new mobo and reinstalled vista and all that jazz. After I reinstalled it once I tried to get rid of the ...

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Default Windows.old needs deletion. I'm scared to do it.
Hi guys,

About a month ago I got a new mobo and reinstalled vista and all that jazz. After I reinstalled it once I tried to get rid of the windows.old folder using disk cleanup, like Microsoft suggested. Afterwards, everytime I booted up I got the BSOD: nothing I tried fixed it. So I jsut reinstalled again and just left it.

Now I want to free up some space on my main hdd and the windows.old folder is taking up a whopping 13.8GB. Are there any safer ways of deleting the folder than using disk cleanup again? I've built up quite a solid computer, no errors in a whole month, and I don't want to reinstall everything again.

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Default Re: Windows.old needs deletion. I'm scared to do i
There should be no reason not to just delete it.

However take the safe path and in the first instance rename it to Windowsold.old.

See how it goes for a few days. If no problem delete it. If a problem appears rename it back.


(I'm thinking that the new installation might be referencing drivers in the .old, which of course it shouldn't)
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Default Re: Windows.old needs deletion. I'm scared to do i
Well, I took a chance and deleted it. Rebooted... no problems. I don't know what the problem was last time but obviously it didn't show it's ugly face this time.

Thanks for suggesting a solution. My next hurdle is upgrading my graphics card XD.

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