windows old

can i delete this folder?
i dont need the settings it has kept, so can i delete it?

Yes, its safe to delete. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"kierz521" wrote in message

can i delete this folder?
i dont need the settings it has kept, so can i delete it?

Well... yes, deleting windows.old won't have an effect on your Vista install, but... that's where your "old" documents and settings folder is placed during the Vista install so if you have any data files in docs & settings that you want to keep... don't delete windows.old before you move/backup/whatever your docs & settings folder or files therein.
Lang
"kierz521" wrote in message

can i delete this folder?
i dont need the settings it has kept, so can i delete it?

During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

Think of windows.old as there for reference since there is no tool for restoring from windows.old the way you would with a backup/restore program. I think of it as a dust bin.
Review the files in the folder. I have no idea what all might be there because I formatted and did a clean install for each new build of Vista. Are there data files such that you could use them in programs like Word? Or are there only the old system files and such?
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message

During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

Actually, the files that would get wiped are REALLY important, such as pictures and other stuff.

The speculation that I have seen here on this newsgroup, is that Microsoft must have intended to have some kind of rollback to a previous operating system, but never got around to implementing it.
Windows.old does not seem to serve any usefull purpose.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message

During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

Actually it was possible to roll back to a version of Win9x (from XP, say) but even that had problems. If the FAT32 filesystem had been converted to NTFS then even that kind of rollback was not possible.
It is not possible to roll back to NT based systems (such as Vista to XP). Windows.old still gets written anyway.
"Todd" wrote in message

The speculation that I have seen here on this newsgroup, is that Microsoft must have intended to have some kind of rollback to a previous operating system, but never got around to implementing it.
Windows.old does not seem to serve any usefull purpose.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

That seems like a better explanation than what I saw before.
Thanks for the update.
Todd
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Actually it was possible to roll back to a version of Win9x (from XP, say) but even that had problems. If the FAT32 filesystem had been converted to NTFS then even that kind of rollback was not possible.
It is not possible to roll back to NT based systems (such as Vista to XP). Windows.old still gets written anyway.
"Todd" wrote in message The speculation that I have seen here on this newsgroup, is that Microsoft must have intended to have some kind of rollback to a previous operating system, but never got around to implementing it.
Windows.old does not seem to serve any usefull purpose.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

No prob.
"Todd" wrote in message

That seems like a better explanation than what I saw before.
Thanks for the update.
Todd
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Actually it was possible to roll back to a version of Win9x (from XP, say) but even that had problems. If the FAT32 filesystem had been converted to NTFS then even that kind of rollback was not possible.
It is not possible to roll back to NT based systems (such as Vista to XP). Windows.old still gets written anyway.
"Todd" wrote in message The speculation that I have seen here on this newsgroup, is that Microsoft must have intended to have some kind of rollback to a previous operating system, but never got around to implementing it.
Windows.old does not seem to serve any usefull purpose.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

The only problem I'm having with the windows.old folder is that I can't, for some security reasons or other, delete the thing. Even with my account being an administrator, I can't seem to give myself the permissions to delete it. I went through and changed the permissions on it and still no luck.
Anyone have any idea of how to deal with that?
Takali Omega
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

No prob.
"Todd" wrote in message That seems like a better explanation than what I saw before.
Thanks for the update.
Todd
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Actually it was possible to roll back to a version of Win9x (from XP, say) but even that had problems. If the FAT32 filesystem had been converted to NTFS then even that kind of rollback was not possible.
It is not possible to roll back to NT based systems (such as Vista to XP). Windows.old still gets written anyway.
"Todd" wrote in message The speculation that I have seen here on this newsgroup, is that Microsoft must have intended to have some kind of rollback to a previous operating system, but never got around to implementing it.
Windows.old does not seem to serve any usefull purpose.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

Since you installed over your current operating system....
'X:\Windows' became 'X:\Windows.old' so you people didn't loose any files, this would have also been likely duplicated for other folders like Documents and Settings.
You cannot just uninstall Vista, especially now so I hope you were smart enough to backup/image your system so you can restore what you had previously without having to reformat, and do a clean install as you likely won't want to use Vista as your main operating system, also future updates will require you redo your Vista install from scratch again also.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message

During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

How about in Safe Mode?
"Takali Omega" wrote in message

The only problem I'm having with the windows.old folder is that I can't, for some security reasons or other, delete the thing. Even with my account being an administrator, I can't seem to give myself the permissions to delete it. I went through and changed the permissions on it and still no luck.
Anyone have any idea of how to deal with that?
Takali Omega
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message No prob.
"Todd" wrote in message That seems like a better explanation than what I saw before.
Thanks for the update.
Todd
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Actually it was possible to roll back to a version of Win9x (from XP, say) but even that had problems. If the FAT32 filesystem had been converted to NTFS then even that kind of rollback was not possible.
It is not possible to roll back to NT based systems (such as Vista to XP). Windows.old still gets written anyway.
"Todd" wrote in message The speculation that I have seen here on this newsgroup, is that Microsoft must have intended to have some kind of rollback to a previous operating system, but never got around to implementing it.
Windows.old does not seem to serve any usefull purpose.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

When I have left files on the target Vista partition, I find I can do whatever I want with the ones that I want to save. There are some files that would not delete by any of the methods below that I found would only delete by formating them. Safe Mode was one of several methods I tried but they were more in the line of meaningless temp files. The folders that I wanted to save from Windoes.old I simply copied.
The situation with Windows Old and upgrading XP to Vista though doesn't seem to be one I want to ever get into from reports I've seen here.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_undeletable_file.htm
http://delinvfile.assistance-and-resources-for-computing-inc.qarchive.org/
Don't know if these would work in Vista.
CH
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

How about in Safe Mode?
"Takali Omega" wrote in message The only problem I'm having with the windows.old folder is that I can't, for some security reasons or other, delete the thing. Even with my account being an administrator, I can't seem to give myself the permissions to delete it. I went through and changed the permissions on it and still no luck.
Anyone have any idea of how to deal with that?
Takali Omega
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message No prob.
"Todd" wrote in message That seems like a better explanation than what I saw before.
Thanks for the update.
Todd
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Actually it was possible to roll back to a version of Win9x (from XP, say) but even that had problems. If the FAT32 filesystem had been converted to NTFS then even that kind of rollback was not possible.
It is not possible to roll back to NT based systems (such as Vista to XP). Windows.old still gets written anyway.
"Todd" wrote in message The speculation that I have seen here on this newsgroup, is that Microsoft must have intended to have some kind of rollback to a previous operating system, but never got around to implementing it.
Windows.old does not seem to serve any usefull purpose.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

Takali Omega wrote:

The only problem I'm having with the windows.old folder is that I can't, for some security reasons or other, delete the thing. Even with my account being an administrator, I can't seem to give myself the permissions to delete it. I went through and changed the permissions on it and still no luck.
Anyone have any idea of how to deal with that?

I robocopy a blank folder over it in /MIR mode.

During the installation of Vista, the Vista installer says that all my files and settings will be moved into a folder marked Windows.old. Am I able to restore all the files and settings from that Windows.old folder into Vista? Or is the Windows.old file just for reference? Like, will all my files be able to be extracted and moved into Vista?

IMO, unless you have the nasty habit of saving your actual data files within C:\WINDOWS, I'd say there's nothing C:\WINDOWS.OLD you should ever need. Rolling back (if at all possible with Vista) is problematic at best, and I wouldn't recommend it even with previous OSes that do support it...

I installed Beta 2 over the top of WinXP. It created a backup of the old installation and called it windows.old. I'm having terrible trouble deleting this folder. It keeps telling me its protected and i dont have rights even though theres only one user account on there etc etc
How do I delete this folder and free up all GBs its taking up?
Thanks

It takes time - be certain UAC is not disabled - use elevated privileges (Run as...) - start with sub-folders.
"Paul" <paul> wrote in message

I installed Beta 2 over the top of WinXP. It created a backup of the old installation and called it windows.old. I'm having terrible trouble deleting this folder. It keeps telling me its protected and i dont have rights even though theres only one user account on there etc etc
How do I delete this folder and free up all GBs its taking up?
Thanks

Hello Paul, You have to take ownership of the files and folders under Windows.old before you can delete them. You do not have permissions to delete or modify system files or folders. Thanks, Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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Paul--
Darrell means to follow these steps:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421
Sometimes they won't delete however, even after you have taken ownership or use a panoply of Delete hard to delete type apps but it's worth trying. (I assume that you didn't leave anything on the Vista volume/drive that you wanted before installing it that would have been included in Windows.old). I understand that you want to get this done because so much real estate has been taken up which makes me wonder how much you left on there without formatting the drive to do a clean Vista install--most Windows.old would not be Gigabytes unless a substanbtial amount of material from a previous OS"s files had been on there.
1) The admin account that is non-deletable that you can reach from safe mode may help you get rid of it and you can also try this from Windows Explorer in Safe Mode. You also can try Doug Knox's
2) Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in. At the command prompt type DEL <filename> where <filename> is the file you wish to delete. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell. Close Task Manager.
If UAC is in your way, you can turn it off at the tools tab at msconfig for the time you want to get your task done (requires a reboot) and then turn it on. If you do a search on this group, or the Vista general, we've put up a number of ways to make UAC more user friendly on the fly with regedits, and secpol.msc changes while we wait to see if the UAC team will make a move toward much better implementation in RC1 or RC2 or RTM whenever.
I have found that using delete methods and applications for "hard to delete files" won't be very effective, so try ownership.
You might also try this to remove the "windows.old" folder, subfolders and files :
3) restart Vista at the boot screen hit the <f8> key boot into "safe mode with command prompt" rename windows.old to windows.old1
Use the following command to delete the folder and it's contents
del windows.old1\*.* /F /S /Q
/F : force delete on read-only files /S : include subfolders /Q : suppress confirmation prompts

4) This is the reghack for being able to log on as admin: Go to: HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Add a new key: SpecialAccounts>And a sub-key in the SpecialAccounts key: UserList>In the UserList key, create a DWORD (32-bit): Administrator Set

value to: 1
To give yourself admin privileges you can also try 5-8 and particularly 5.
5) Windows key + R>secpol.msc>Under Local Policies>Click Security Options>3rd Item Down>Run all administrators in admin mode>enable for the time at least you want to get rid of Windows.old
6) Go to Start/Run/ and there, enter control userpasswords2 - and enable it there.
7) Go to Start/Run/ and there, enter compmgmt.msc - and enable it there.
8) Run "Net user administrator active:yes" from an elevated cmd prompt.
__________________________
*UAC Vista Resources*

UAC Articles Technet http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/security/uac.mspx
UAC blog http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/ http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/01/22/516066.aspx
Expert Zone Webcast: Security Features in Windows Vista http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917793/en-us
UAC Team Beta Vista Chats:
6/22/06 http://windowsconnected.com/forums/70/ShowForum.aspx
9/28/05 http://windowsconnected.com/forums/thread/2846.aspx
and also check out these discussions:
O'Reilly Dev Center: UAC Overview http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/04/uac-in-windows-vista.html
Technet UAC Overview http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/security/uacppr.mspx
UAC What's New in Beta 2? http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/06/21/641713.aspx
UAC Application Webcast http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/06/26/647384.aspx
Q&A with UAC Vista PM Chris Corio http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/01/21/558.aspx
UAC Gone Wild (Not to be confused with Girls Gone Wild who can't decide how to wear their T-Shirts) http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877-6089415.html
Good luck,
CH
___
Nice goin' USA--you have forged a solid Shiite Fanatic Fundamentalist Crescent from Damascus to Gaza and as usual while "All hat no Cattle lil George sits in the corner drooling, Israel has the Kohonas to clean up part of the Axis of Terrorist Evil that you can't.
"Propotional response" LOL--Gee I wonder how "proportional" it's be if those Katyushas were sailin' into D.C., NYC, Miami, Seattle, and Houston. I know most Americans don't read newspapers but those missles have been sailing into Israel every day for 4 years. The CNN barbie dolls think they just got there 2 weeks ago.
Great job on the embryonic stems Georgie--you never run out of ways to kill Americans in droves. Nothing like quintissential and complete medical stupidity to energize a base with mush in their brains and the scientific/medical insight of a pith brained squirrel.
______________________________


""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" wrote in message

Hello Paul, You have to take ownership of the files and folders under Windows.old before you can delete them. You do not have permissions to delete or modify system files or folders. Thanks, Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights -------------------- From: "Paul" <paul Subject: windows.old Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:34:11 +0200 Lines: 12 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <urRsPC$qGHA.2452@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup NNTP-Posting-Host: 228.red-83-53-37.dynamicip.rima-tde.net 83.53.37.228 Path: TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl Xref: TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup:7957 X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
I installed Beta 2 over the top of WinXP. It created a backup of the old installation and called it windows.old. I'm having terrible trouble deleting this folder. It keeps telling me its protected and i dont have rights even though theres only one user account on there etc etc
How do I delete this folder and free up all GBs its taking up?
Thanks

Thanks for taking the time to give me such a full answer "CH" <US has made a ShiaTerror Crescent@mideast.net> wrote in message Paul--
Darrell means to follow these steps:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421
Sometimes they won't delete however, even after you have taken ownership or use a panoply of Delete hard to delete type apps but it's worth trying. (I assume that you didn't leave anything on the Vista volume/drive that you wanted before installing it that would have been included in Windows.old). I understand that you want to get this done because so much real estate has been taken up which makes me wonder how much you left on there without formatting the drive to do a clean Vista install--most Windows.old would not be Gigabytes unless a substanbtial amount of material from a previous OS"s files had been on there.
1) The admin account that is non-deletable that you can reach from safe mode may help you get rid of it and you can also try this from Windows Explorer in Safe Mode. You also can try Doug Knox's
2) Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in. At the command prompt type DEL <filename> where <filename> is the file you wish to delete. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell. Close Task Manager.
If UAC is in your way, you can turn it off at the tools tab at msconfig for the time you want to get your task done (requires a reboot) and then turn it on. If you do a search on this group, or the Vista general, we've put up a number of ways to make UAC more user friendly on the fly with regedits, and secpol.msc changes while we wait to see if the UAC team will make a move toward much better implementation in RC1 or RC2 or RTM whenever.
I have found that using delete methods and applications for "hard to delete files" won't be very effective, so try ownership.
You might also try this to remove the "windows.old" folder, subfolders and files :
3) restart Vista at the boot screen hit the <f8> key boot into "safe mode with command prompt" rename windows.old to windows.old1
Use the following command to delete the folder and it's contents
del windows.old1\*.* /F /S /Q
/F : force delete on read-only files /S : include subfolders /Q : suppress confirmation prompts

4) This is the reghack for being able to log on as admin: Go to: HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Add a new key: SpecialAccounts>And a sub-key in the SpecialAccounts key: UserList>In the UserList key, create a DWORD (32-bit): Administrator Set

value to: 1
To give yourself admin privileges you can also try 5-8 and particularly 5.
5) Windows key + R>secpol.msc>Under Local Policies>Click Security Options>3rd Item Down>Run all administrators in admin mode>enable for the time at least you want to get rid of Windows.old
6) Go to Start/Run/ and there, enter control userpasswords2 - and enable it there.
7) Go to Start/Run/ and there, enter compmgmt.msc - and enable it there.
8) Run "Net user administrator active:yes" from an elevated cmd prompt.
__________________________
*UAC Vista Resources*

UAC Articles Technet http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/security/uac.mspx
UAC blog http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/ http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/01/22/516066.aspx
Expert Zone Webcast: Security Features in Windows Vista http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917793/en-us
UAC Team Beta Vista Chats:
6/22/06 http://windowsconnected.com/forums/70/ShowForum.aspx
9/28/05 http://windowsconnected.com/forums/thread/2846.aspx
and also check out these discussions:
O'Reilly Dev Center: UAC Overview http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/04/uac-in-windows-vista.html
Technet UAC Overview http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/security/uacppr.mspx
UAC What's New in Beta 2? http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/06/21/641713.aspx
UAC Application Webcast http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/06/26/647384.aspx
Q&A with UAC Vista PM Chris Corio http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/01/21/558.aspx
UAC Gone Wild (Not to be confused with Girls Gone Wild who can't decide how to wear their T-Shirts) http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877-6089415.html
Good luck,
CH
___
Nice goin' USA--you have forged a solid Shiite Fanatic Fundamentalist Crescent from Damascus to Gaza and as usual while "All hat no Cattle lil George sits in the corner drooling, Israel has the Kohonas to clean up part of the Axis of Terrorist Evil that you can't.
"Propotional response" LOL--Gee I wonder how "proportional" it's be if those Katyushas were sailin' into D.C., NYC, Miami, Seattle, and Houston. I know most Americans don't read newspapers but those missles have been sailing into Israel every day for 4 years. The CNN barbie dolls think they just got there 2 weeks ago.
Great job on the embryonic stems Georgie--you never run out of ways to kill Americans in droves. Nothing like quintissential and complete medical stupidity to energize a base with mush in their brains and the scientific/medical insight of a pith brained squirrel.
______________________________



""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" wrote in message

Hello Paul, You have to take ownership of the files and folders under Windows.old before you can delete them. You do not have permissions to delete or modify system files or folders. Thanks, Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights -------------------- From: "Paul" <paul Subject: windows.old Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:34:11 +0200 Lines: 12 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <urRsPC$qGHA.2452@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup NNTP-Posting-Host: 228.red-83-53-37.dynamicip.rima-tde.net 83.53.37.228 Path: TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl Xref: TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup:7957 X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
I installed Beta 2 over the top of WinXP. It created a backup of the old installation and called it windows.old. I'm having terrible trouble deleting this folder. It keeps telling me its protected and i dont have rights even though theres only one user account on there etc etc
How do I delete this folder and free up all GBs its taking up?
Thanks