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Windows.Old Folder Size?

SleathX1
By SleathX1
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I've got a 1TB Seagate HDD which I had Win 7 on, and after the upgrade to 10 today, the Windows.Old folder is now a thing. When I was reading about how the upgrade worked, I thought it was very smart of Microsoft to let us hold on to our old data for a month before the Windows 10 settles in. Granted, it would've been nice if we could keep it forever, but that's why we have backup HDDs, amirite?

 

SO ANYWAYS, here's my point. My Windows.old folder seems to be much larger than other peoples'. It's supposed to be around 20-30 GB, right? But here's mine. 

http://puu.sh/jicJ6/a3df2e2ff9.png 

500 freakin' gigs. Obviously that's all of my data from Windows 7, but is it supposed to be as large as mine is? 

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That is way too big, mine was around 200mb. I would just get rid of it if I were you.  :)

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Mine was just over 20gb. But I did a reset because I wanted a clean install so it deleted it anyway. 

 

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damn!

Mine is 24.5GB

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Use Disk Cleanup// Clean up system files // Select all - this will get rid of that folder.

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Uuh, delete stuff you absolutelu don't need?`Its every single file you had on win7, so ofc its big.

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