If you're ready to replace your old PC and hand it down to a friend or family member, you'll need to wipe your data and reset it. Follow these instructions to make sure you do it the right way.

After installing Windows 10, Roy A. Day discovered a very large Windows.old folder on his internal drive. Since deleting it the conventional way didn’t work, he asked for another solution. The Windows ...

Have you discovered a mysterious (and very heavy) folder called Windows.old on your PC? Although it is impossible to send it to the Recycle Bin in the traditional way, it is possible to actually ...

L. Stewart Peirce has upgraded to Windows 7. Can he safely move Windows.old to another drive? When you upgrade XP or Vista to Windows 7 with the Custom (Advanced) option, the installation program puts ...

Microsoft has warned Windows 10 and Windows 11 users that files might not be deleted after resetting the device using the "Remove everything" option. The issue stems from Microsoft's OneDrive cloud ...

Many people don’t bother to delete old files on their PC and so they keep accumulating, only to give you a headache afterwards in terms of storage problems. It’s always good practice to delete old ...