Windows Creators Update : Wondows.old

[Sadleast]

So i installed the update and everything is fine. But the folder Windows.old takes so much space of my SSD. Can i delete it without causing problems?

 

it Takes round about 20GB and i have 5GB left now.  

[Jeffdonatic]

Yeah you can delete it without any issues can also use cleanup in administrator mode to remove it

[RileyTheFox]

1 minute ago, Sadleast said:

So i installed the update and everything is fine. But the folder Windows.old takes so much space of my SSD. Can i delete it without causing problems?

 

it Takes round about 20GB and i have 5GB left now.  

Go to Disk Cleanup and Windows will delete it properly for you. Unless you experience issues with the new update and wish to roll back to a stable version, deleting it wouldn't cause an issue. I do recommend using disk cleanup though  

[historicalpoultry]

yep, administrator disk cleanup is the way to go

[GoodBytes]

As everyone said just use the Windows Disk Utility as admin to remove it.

It the backup in the case you need to revert back if things doesn't work right anymore.

If you wonder, normally,. Windows will auto-deletes it after 30 days. So, in other words you have 30 days to decide if you want to revert back or not. If you are happy and everything seems to work right, feel free to manually delete it.