Cannot Delete Windows.Old and windows.old.000 folders
Have you changed any UAC settings?I had no problem deleting Windows.Old as a standard user with the default UAC settings. Just the standard UAC prompt and that was it.
January 11th, 2009 6:56pm

Have you changed any UAC settings?I had no problem deleting Windows.Old as a standard user with the default UAC settings. Just the standard UAC prompt and that was it.
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January 11th, 2009 6:56pm

These two folders where from previous installs, when I try to delete them Windows says "Ineed permission to perform this action." "You reqiure permission from SYSTEM to make changes to this folder"Please noteI am admin on my machine(although I'm not logged in as admin)Under the Advance Security Setting for the folder I attempted to give my username full access control, but I get the "access denied"Any assistance would be great.
January 12th, 2009 2:55am

Have you changed any UAC settings?I had no problem deleting Windows.Old as a standard user with the default UAC settings. Just the standard UAC prompt and that was it.
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January 12th, 2009 2:56am

Akame-san said: Have you changed any UAC settings?I had no problem deleting Windows.Old as a standard user with the default UAC settings. Just the standard UAC prompt and that was it.I believe this had something to do with my previous botched install. After doing a complete reinstall (I did not re-format the partition before hand so another "windows.old.ooo" folder was created) I was able to delete both "windows.old" folders.Thanks for the suggestion.Cheers
January 12th, 2009 9:10am

Click on Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disc Cleanup When the dialog box comes up, select the drive that has the .old files on it and click OK The system then scans for the files to be cleaned up and another dialog box opens with the selection. Click on the button labeled Clean up system files at the bottom of that dialog box. Another dialog box will come up, select the drive again that has the .old files on it. The system will perform another scan for the system files that need to be cleaned up. After scanning, another dialog box opens up and there you will find a list of check boxes. Scroll through and check on the box labeled Older versions of Windows and click OK. That should take care of them. The two aborted install attempts I had as .old files where taking up 16 gigs. This got rid of them.
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March 29th, 2012 1:08pm

Click on Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disc Cleanup When the dialog box comes up, select the drive that has the .old files on it and click OK The system then scans for the files to be cleaned up and another dialog box opens with the selection. Click on the button labeled Clean up system files at the bottom of that dialog box. Another dialog box will come up, select the drive again that has the .old files on it. The system will perform another scan for the system files that need to be cleaned up. After scanning, another dialog box opens up and there you will find a list of check boxes. Scroll through and check on the box labeled Older versions of Windows and click OK. That should take care of them. The two aborted install attempts I had as .old files where taking up 16 gigs. This got rid of them.
March 29th, 2012 1:08pm

Click on Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disc Cleanup When the dialog box comes up, select the drive that has the .old files on it and click OK The system then scans for the files to be cleaned up and another dialog box opens with the selection. Click on the button labeled Clean up system files at the bottom of that dialog box. Another dialog box will come up, select the drive again that has the .old files on it. The system will perform another scan for the system files that need to be cleaned up. After scanning, another dialog box opens up and there you will find a list of check boxes. Scroll through and check on the box labeled Older versions of Windows and click OK. That should take care of them. The two aborted install attempts I had as .old files where taking up 16 gigs. This got rid of them.
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March 29th, 2012 1:14pm

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