good day all just curious if the windows.old folder should be 20.4 GB after the AU. i just did the update today all seems well just wondering.
It's hard to say not knowing how large the C:Windows Folder was before the update.good day all just curious if the windows.old folder should be 20.4 GB after the AU. i just did the update today all seems well just wondering.
I have just checked mine following the update last week and the "windows.old" is just short of 19GB in size
I have also been told by a few people that this will auto delete after about 10 days Will soon find out this time next week...
You can force it by using Disk cleanup > Clean system files.I have just checked mine following the update last week and the "windows.old" is just short of 19GB in size
I have also been told by a few people that this will auto delete after about 10 days Will soon find out this time next week...
I am just going to wait and see if it does self delete just to see if it actually does Lol
They promised 10 days as opposed to 30 before but I have seen them sitting there for year or more.I am just going to wait and see if it does self delete just to see if it actually does Lol
That would not surprise me... I did the update on Tuesday night so I will see what happens about this time next week.. If not I will remove it myself
The original 10240 upgrade a year ago never got round to deleting its windows.old, I had to clean it up manually. For 1511 I couldn't be bothered to wait, used disk cleanup. This time I waited to see - 10 days after my AU upgrade (to the minute) it was all automatically removed.They promised 10 days as opposed to 30 before but I have seen them sitting there for year or more.
20.4 GB is not an unheard-of size for a Windows.old folder. I write about this stuff, so I usually check mine on a variety of systems. I've seen them as small as 9 or 10 GB and as large as 20-25 GB across the various systems upon which I've run Windows 10 since October of 2014 when the Technical Preview first became generally available. This is on the high side, but that probably reflects a Windows install with numerous installed applications (which also add to the image size).
HTH,
