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17-Nov-2009, 01:00 PM #1
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Good Morning,
One question, after doing an upgrade from
Windows vista to windows 7 can I delete the
C:\Windows.old folder?
Thanks,
Barry
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17-Nov-2009, 01:38 PM #2
You can, its your choice, but then you may not be able to revert back to Vista very easily if you need/want to. Also there may be data you want/need in there from your old Vista installation.

See this. it references the windows.old folder.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971760

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17-Nov-2009, 02:13 PM #3
If you have enough disk space leave it be, until you don't
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17-Nov-2009, 02:58 PM #4
Thanks for the replies, I will just leave it on.
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