How to delete Windows.old (7gigs) after update...

[demandarin]

I did this earlier without even seeing this article. Used disk cleanup to get rid of older windows stuff and of older drivers I don't need. It freed about 6gb of internal storage space for me.

Now time to decide what new steam game on sale I want to install..lol

 

[CrippsCorner]

Hmmm, seems my Microsoft Bluetooth Touch Mouse keeps disconnecting now. Have to turn it off and then on again to reconnect.

Has this only happened since the deletion of your .old folder? Maybe I shouldn't try this!

 

[kristalsoldier]

But I did have it after the upgrade. I upgraded Win8 to Win8.1 on my Surface, no custom installation, not formatting any partition and I did have a Windows.old folder in my root directory because I checked it to see the size (3.8GB) with the plan to remove it later via Disk cleanup. But when I did it wasn't there. Very strange. Could an automatic update have deleted it? I still have the same free SSD space on my C drive, not 3.8GB more than after the update (the update gave me about 5-6GB more space than I had in Win8.

Odd. I noticed the same thing on my RT too - post updating to 8.1. Don't really know what's going on, but as long as the device works fine, I don't really care - though I would be interested to know.

 

[demandarin]

You-know-what the weirdest thing happened. I did what I mentioned in previous post and saw the reflected free space. Then a little while later, after I rebooted I saw 10 more gigs of free space came outta nowhwere. It was correct. I had no complaints..haha