On 2015-11-15 10:13 PM, William Chaney -> All wrote:   
    WC> I'm having a problem getting rid of a windows.old dir. I ran disk   
    WC> cleanup on it   
    WC> and it won't delete the windows.old dir and everytime I try to delete it   
    WC> myself   
    WC> I get an error saying that the dir no longer exists. How can I get rid   
    WC> of this   
    WC> dir? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.   
      
      
   Did Disk Cleanup remove all (or most) of the contents? I recently updated to   
   Windows 10 1511 on a pair of HP Stream 11's (newish low-end small laptops with   
   32 GB SSDs - so drive space is at a premium).   
      
   In each, the Windows.old folder reported taking up 18-19 GB of space - which   
   was more room than was available on the drives.   
      
   I ran Disk Cleanup - remember that you have to click the Clean up System Files   
   button, and then manually [x] the option to remove Old Windows installations.   
      
   Afterwards, about 9 GB of space was freed up - the Windows.old folder   
   remained, but only with a few tiny files - total space used: around 100 MB. I   
   haven't tried to delete the folders (and little bit of contents) - more   
   important to me was having the drive space back.   
      
   I am puzzled by the exaggeration of the amount of space taken by the folder,   
   however - on both of these computers.   
      
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