Windows.old

[Dakoka]

Hey guys,

 

I just did a reinstall of Win10 because of all the kerner problem,

now i see i have a folder which is called windows.old where all my stuff still is.

my question is can i export it to the main drive/folder?

i hope you understand my idea.

 

Ps if you need my hardware i can give you,.

 

Greetz 

Tiago

[KenjiUmino]

5 minutes ago, Dakoka said:

I just did a reinstall of Win10 because of all the kerner problem,

now i see i have a folder which is called windows.old

if you installed windows again without wiping the drive first then this is normal.

 

what files in that folder do you still need ?

[NinJake]

Here is a good explanation from Microsoft directly how to retrieve files from your windows.old folder that was created during the reinstall. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17125/windows-8-restore-files-old-folder-upgrade

 

8 minutes ago, Dakoka said:

Ps if you need my hardware i can give you,.

Now, if you want to give me your hardware, I guess I won't say no to that!

[Dakoka]

1 minute ago, NinJake said:

Here is a good explanation from Microsoft directly how to retrieve files from your windows.old folder that was created during the reinstall. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17125/windows-8-restore-files-old-folder-upgrade

 

Now, if you want to give me your hardware, I guess I won't say no to that!

ups didnt mean it that way haha

[NinJake]

Just now, Dakoka said:

ups didnt mean it that way haha

I know, I was just joking and I figured you don't primarily speak English. However it's also worth noting that the recent meltdown and spectre attacks, reinstalling windows won't do too much to help you, and you could have saved yourself the hassle and simple did a "check for updates" within windows to achieve the same effect of reinstalling. It's up to Intel/AMD/ARM to fix their chips in the grand scheme of things. Web browsers have done patches, windows/linux/iOS have their own patches as well. But it's also nothing to get scared about unless you have a tendency of visiting less than legitimate pages.

[Dakoka]

1 minute ago, NinJake said:

I know, I was just joking and I figured you don't primarily speak English. However it's also worth noting that the recent meltdown and spectre attacks, reinstalling windows won't do too much to help you, and you could have saved yourself the hassle and simple did a "check for updates" within windows to achieve the same effect of reinstalling. It's up to Intel/AMD/ARM to fix their chips in the grand scheme of things. Web browsers have done patches, windows/linux/iOS have their own patches as well. But it's also nothing to get scared about unless you have a tendency of visiting less than legitimate pages.

yeah but it stopped at 82 % and then it says there is an error and i tried everything 

[LogicalDrm]

You can just copy-paste stuff you need out and delete rest. Softwares you need to reinstall, but most of configuration and customization files can be retrieved from there.