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Files from Windows.old are being used if you upgraded from 7/8.1 to 10

no they are not...

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Files from Windows.old are being used if you upgraded from 7/8.1 to 10

they aren't being used, but rather a capsule of files that didn't move over the the new installation. A fail safe if you realized you had important stuff on the pc while its upgrading...

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go into linux and delete whatever you want...

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they aren't being used, but rather a capsule of files that didn't move over the the new installation. A fail safe if you realized you had important stuff on the pc while its upgrading...

we all have backups of our data before we upgraded anyway

 

 

 

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