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[techimnot]

May not be the right place and if not please redirect me. I upgraded to
Vista last year from XP and was doing a search for a missing .jpg and came
up with a ton of pictures from newsgroups I was subscribed to that I can't
seem to locate on my hard drive to delete. This was using Outlook Express.
I do have a folder, Windows.old, can I safely delete that folder, and would
that take those files along with it? They must be in the store folder from a
OE identity that I no longer use, or remember the login. Any ideas. Just
want to get rid of them.

 

[Charlie42]

May not be the right place and if not please redirect me. I upgraded to
Vista last year from XP and was doing a search for a missing .jpg and came
up with a ton of pictures from newsgroups I was subscribed to that I can't
seem to locate on my hard drive to delete. This was using Outlook
Express. I do have a folder, Windows.old, can I safely delete that folder,
and would that take those files along with it? They must be in the store
folder from a OE identity that I no longer use, or remember the login. Any
ideas. Just want to get rid of them.

The Windows.old folder contains your legacy OS and user files. It is used
for backup and rolling back to XP, should you decide to at a later point. If
you feel no need for the backups and see no reason to ever roll back, you
can safely delete the folder and it's contents. I can not tell you if this
will erase the files in question, it depends on wether they are stored in
Windows.old or not, you did not seem sure.

Charlie42

 

[techimnot]

The Windows.old folder contains your legacy OS and user files. It is used
for backup and rolling back to XP, should you decide to at a later point.
If you feel no need for the backups and see no reason to ever roll back,
you can safely delete the folder and it's contents. I can not tell you if
this will erase the files in question, it depends on wether they are
stored in Windows.old or not, you did not seem sure.

Charlie42

Ok, thanks! Will check the folder over and make sure there is nothing there
I need, and zap. I am totally content with Vista.