Running "Disk Cleanup" after installing upgrade

[Robin Lund]

I recently upgraded my laptop from Windows XP Media Center Edition to
Windows Vista Premium. The installation went well. When I ran "Disk
Cleanup", I could gain 17.2 GB by removing Previous Windows Installations.
This is the message regarding previous windows installations: "Files from a
previous Windows installation. Files and folders that may conflict with the
installation of Windows have been moved to Folders named Windows.old. You
can access data from the previous windows installations in this folder." My
question: should I remove them to gain 17.2 GB of space? I certainly don't
want to mess up my new laptop, so if it will create any problems, I won't do
it.

My computer's particulars: 1024 MB system memory; 120GB hard drive.

Thanks for your help. Robin Lund

 

[Robert Moir]

I recently upgraded my laptop from Windows XP Media Center Edition to
Windows Vista Premium. The installation went well. When I ran "Disk
Cleanup", I could gain 17.2 GB by removing Previous Windows Installations.
This is the message regarding previous windows installations: "Files from
a previous Windows installation. Files and folders that may conflict with
the installation of Windows have been moved to Folders named Windows.old.
You can access data from the previous windows installations in this
folder." My question: should I remove them to gain 17.2 GB of space? I
certainly don't want to mess up my new laptop, so if it will create any
problems, I won't do it.

I'd look through them first to ensure there is nothing there *you* want, but
there is no reason to keep the files around from the operating system's
point of view, if you see what I mean.

If you're really unsure you could always back them up to DVD or something
prior to deleting them, but really there should never be anything in that
folder the OS itself needs.

 

[Robin Lund]

Thanks for the info. I'll check them out and then let 'em go. Robin