Haddii aad isku dayday in aad casriyeyso kombuyutarka Windows-ka oo uu dhowr jeer ku guul daraystay sababo kala duwan oo dhibsado awgood, waxa ay u badan tahay in aad xaqiiqsatay in ay jirto qayb wayn oo saxan ah oo uu cunayo gal la yidhaahdo Windows.old .

Windows.old si toos ah ayaa loo soo saaraa mar kasta oo aad rakibto Windows oo leh nooc hore oo OS ah oo hore loo rakibay. Waxay ku abuurtaa galkan Windows.old xididka qaybta Windows waxayna kaydisaa faylalka iyo xogta nidaamka hawlgalka ee hore.

Haddii ay dhacdo inaad isku daydo inaad ka cusboonaysiiso Windows Vista una gudub Windows 7 ama Windows 7 Windows 10 oo ay ku guuldareysato, waxaad mar walba dib ugu noqon kartaa Windows Vista ama 7 si badbaado leh. Arrinka keliya ee arrintan ku saabsan ayaa ah in mar kasta oo rakibiddu uu guuldareysto, koobi kale oo OS-kii hore ah ayaa lagu koobiyeeyaa Windows.old .

Markaa, haddii rakibaada casriyeynta ay ku guuldareysato 2 ama 3 jeer, galkaas Windows.old wuxuu noqon karaa mid aad u weyn, aad u dhaqso badan! Intaa waxaa dheer, faylka si toos ah looma tirtirayo markaad kor u kacdo oo aad la socoto nooca cusub ee Windows , markaa waa inaad naftaada ka takhalustaa.

Fiiro gaar ah: Ka saarida galka Windows.old waxay kuu horseedi doontaa inaad awoodin inaad dib ugu noqoto OS-kii hore ee lagu rakibay. Waa inaad la socotaa nooca cusub ee Windows. Sidoo kale, faylka Windows.old waxa la abuuraa marka aad ku rakibto cusboonaysiinta waaweyn ee sannadlaha ah ee Windows 10. ^{(Note: Removing the Windows.old folder will result in your inability to be able to revert back to the previous OS installed. You will have to stick with the new version of Windows. Also, the Windows.old folder gets created when you install those big bi-annual updates for Windows 10. )}

Ka saar Folder Windows.old

Haddaba sidee looga takhalusaa galka? Hagaag, waa inaad isticmaashaa utility Cleanup Disk^{(Disk Cleanup)} ! Waa kan sida loo sameeyo. Habka ugu horeeya ayaa sharxi doona sida loo tirtiro galka Windows.old on Windows 7/8/10 . Haddii aad weli ku jirto Windows Vista , raac habka labaad ee tilmaamaha.

Windows 7/8/10 Tilmaamaha

Haddii aad ku jirto Windows 7/8/10 oo aad rabto in aad tirtirto faylka Windows.old , nidaamku waa mid toos ah. Marka hore^(First) , fur Disk Cleanup adigoo sii maraya Start Menu (guji Start oo ku qor diskka nadiifinta) marka uu wada hadalku soo baxo dooro darawalka ay ku jiraan .faylalka hore oo guji OK. Kani caadi ahaan waa darawalka C oo kaliya. Haddii taasi tahay dariiqa kaliya ee kombayuutarkaaga, xitaa kuma weydiin doonto inaad doorato.

Nidaamku wuxuu samayn doonaa iskaanka oo hadal kale ayaa ka soo bixi doona xulashada. Hadda dhagsii badhanka nidaamka faylalka Nadiifinta^{(Cleanup system files)}  badhanka hoose.

Hadda dooro mar labaad darawalka ay ku yaalliin .faylashii hore. Nidaamku wuxuu samayn doonaa iskaanka labaad ee faylasha u baahan in la nadiifiyo oo qaadan doona xoogaa dheer.

Ugu dambeyntii, wada-hadal ayaa la soo bixi doona xirmo kale oo sanduuqyo ah. Hoos^(Scroll) u dhaadhac ilaa aad ka hesho mid calaamadeysan oo ka da'weyn Windows^{(Older versions of Windows )} ama rakibaadii Windows hore^{( Previous Windows installations)} oo guji OK .

Sida aad arki karto, caadiyan waa xog aad u tiro badan oo ay qaadaan qalabyadii hore ee Windows .

Tilmaamaha Windows Vista

Guji Start , ka dibna All Programs , Agabka^{(Accessories)} , System Tools , ka dibna Disk Cleanup . Hubi in aad midigta ku dhufatid Nadiifinta Disk^{(Disk Cleanup)} oo dooro Maamul ahaan Orod^{(Run As Administrator)} .

Wadahadalka Nadiifinta Options Disk^{(Disk Cleanup Options)} , hubi inaad hubiso faylalka dhammaan isticmaalayaasha sanduuqan kumbuyuutarka .^{(Files from all users on this computer)}

Kadibna gudaha Disk Cleanup - Wadahadal ^{(Disk Cleanup – Drive)} Xulashada^(Selection) , dhagsii Hard Disk-ga halka uu ku yaalo gal Windows.old oo guji OK. Nidaamku wuxuu markaa ka baari doonaa darawalka faylalka aan loo baahnayn.

Guji tabka ^(Click)Nadiifinta Disk^{(Disk Cleanup)} - ga oo raadi sanduuqa hubinta ee sheegaya rakibaadyadii hore ee Windows^{(Previous Windows installations)} . Hubi oo guji OK. Markaas dhagsii Delete Files marka lagu weydiiyo.

Waa kaas! Taasi waa inay meesha ka saartaa faylalka duugga ah weligood! Haddii aad wax dhib ah kala kulanto sidii aad uga takhalusi lahayd, ku dheji faallooyinka halkan waxaanan isku dayi doonaa inaan ku caawiyo. Ku raaxayso!

How to Delete the Windows.old folder in Windows 7/8/10

If you have tried upgrading уour Windowѕ PC and іt has failed a couple of times due to various annoying reasonѕ, you’ve probably come to realize that there is a large chunk of disk space being eaten up by a folder called Windows.old.

Windows.old is automatically generated whenever you perform an installation of Windows with a previous version of the OS already installed. It creates this Windows.old folder in the root of the Windows partition and stores the previous operating system files and data.

In case you try to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 or Windows 7 to Windows 10 and it fails, you can always revert back to Windows Vista or 7 safely. The only issue with this is that every time the install fails, another copy of the previous OS is copied into Windows.old.

So, if your upgrade install failed 2 or 3 times, that Windows.old folder can become very large, very fast! On top of that, the folder is not automatically deleted once you are up and running with the newer version of Windows, so you have to get rid of it yourself.

Note: Removing the Windows.old folder will result in your inability to be able to revert back to the previous OS installed. You will have to stick with the new version of Windows. Also, the Windows.old folder gets created when you install those big bi-annual updates for Windows 10. 

Remove Windows.old Folder

So how do you get rid of the folder? Well, you have to use the Disk Cleanup utility! Here’s how to go about it. The first method will describe how to delete the Windows.old folder on Windows 7/8/10. If you are in Windows Vista still, follow the second set of instructions.

Windows 7/8/10 Instructions

If you are in Windows 7/8/10 and want to delete the Windows.old folder, the process is fairly straightforward. First, open Disk Cleanup via the Start Menu (click Start and type in disk cleanup) and when the dialog pops up, choose the drive that has the .old files on it and click OK. This is normally just the C drive. If that’s the only drive on your computer, it won’t even ask you to choose.

The system will perform a scan and another dialog will pop up with the selection. Now click on the button Cleanup system files button at the bottom.

Now choose the drive again that has the .old files on it. The system will perform a second scan of files that need to be cleaned up and will take a bit longer.

Finally, a dialog will pop up with another set of checkboxes. Scroll down until you find one labeled Older versions of Windows or Previous Windows installations and click OK.

As you can see, it’s normally quite a large amount of data that gets taken up by previous installations of Windows.

Windows Vista Instructions

Click on Start, then All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then Disk Cleanup. Make sure you right-click on Disk Cleanup and choose Run As Administrator.

In the Disk Cleanup Options dialog, make sure to check the Files from all users on this computer box.

Then in the Disk Cleanup – Drive Selection dialog, click on the hard disk where the the Windows.old folder is and click OK. The system will then scan the drive for unnecessary files.

Click on the Disk Cleanup tab and look for a checkbox that says Previous Windows installations. Check it and click OK. Then click Delete Files when prompted.

That’s it! That should get rid of those space-hogging .old folders forever! If you have any problems getting rid of them, post a comment here and I’ll try to help. Enjoy!

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