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Cant Get rid of Windows.old

Shaan5
By Shaan5
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I ran disk cleanup on Win10 and everything on Windows.old was deleted besides 200KB and the Folder is still there, I tried running it again but when I try to delete, it says I need Admin Privileges and Access Denied

 

Any way to get rid of it?

 Case: Define R5 I GPU: G1 GTX 970 I CPU: i5 4690k I RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X I PSU:  EVGA 750B2 I Cooler: Noctua NH D15 


MB: ASUS Z97-A I SSD: Crucial MX100 256GB I HDD: WD Black 1TB

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drive properties > clean up> removove old versions of windows files

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Reboot and try again to delete fixed it for me. :)

Didnt work for me

 Case: Define R5 I GPU: G1 GTX 970 I CPU: i5 4690k I RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X I PSU:  EVGA 750B2 I Cooler: Noctua NH D15 


MB: ASUS Z97-A I SSD: Crucial MX100 256GB I HDD: WD Black 1TB

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drive properties > clean up> removove old versions of windows files

Already tried it

 Case: Define R5 I GPU: G1 GTX 970 I CPU: i5 4690k I RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X I PSU:  EVGA 750B2 I Cooler: Noctua NH D15 


MB: ASUS Z97-A I SSD: Crucial MX100 256GB I HDD: WD Black 1TB

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Yea, try safe mode. Never had this happen to me before. Weird. Nothing more annoying than stubborn files.

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Safe mode or live-linux.

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