In a message on Tuesday 11-16-15 William Chaney said to All:   
      
   Hello William,   
      
   WC> I'm having a problem getting rid of a windows.old dir. I ran disk   
   WC> cleanup on it and it won't delete the windows.old dir and everytime   
   WC> I try to delete it myself I get an error saying that the dir no   
   WC> longer exists. How can I get rid of this dir? Any help with this   
   WC> would be greatly appreciated.   
      
   I saw that you already received a good advice but I'll give another:   
      
   Knowing that one cannot delete/remove a directory that contains files or   
   subdirectories, in the old days I would have changed to that directory,   
   and first deleted all files in the subdirectories, and the directories   
   one by one, and finally all the files and then then the main directory.   
      
   The "rmdir /S /Q \windows.old" command was unknown to me bacause I use   
   PC-DOS. Since PCDOS v6.1 there's the command "deltree drive:\windows.old"   
   that does the same thing. That "deltree" command may have been included   
   from "PCTools", that became included into the PCDOS operating system.   
      
      
   Have a ggod night,   
      
   Holger   
      
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