> 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   
    >  WC> it 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.   
      
   Thanks for the reply. Yeah I ran disk cleanup but it kept the windows.old   
   folder and wont let me delete it. I tried rmdir but it didn't find the folder   
   I was trying to remove. The folders are empty so I guess I'll just leave it   
   like it is. Again thanks for the reply.   
      
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