How to remove Windows.old manually in Windows 10

More than one may have noticed the existence of a folder called Windows.old. This folder is located on the hard drive next to the Windows folder with all the system files. Even when many do not know it, contains older versions of the operating system. They are there in case an update goes wrong. But users can delete this folder manually and save space in this way.

It is an extremely simple procedure to perform and only takes a few minutes. But, the important thing is done correctly. So that therefore let's delete the Windows.old folder from the computer, but without causing any problems in the system.

In Windows 10 there are a couple of alternatives available. But the most efficient and simple of all is to make use of the system settings. Since it is a method that only takes us a couple of minutes to complete. So that we can get rid of the Windows.old folder.

To delete Windows.old we must delete the folder with the disk space cleaning tool. We can find it in the search for the system. One of the alternatives that it offers us is «Previous versions of Windows».

For this, the steps to follow to delete this folder from your computer should be the following:

• Click on the Start Menu
• Go to the system configuration (gear icon)
• Get in system
• In the menu on the left side we must click on storage
• Click on your hard drive and thus we access the alternatives of the same
• Click on Temporary files

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• We get a list with the types of temporary files that are on the computer and we can delete
• We look for the option of «previous version of Windows».
• We mark it
• We click on delete files

In this way, We have managed to eliminate these files and we will see that the Windows.old folder has been deleted from our computer.. Therefore we have managed to gain some additional storage space.