I had to clean reinstall 10586 after formatting system drive, I intend to upgrade to 14332, in case I run into problems again, I hope I have the possibility to uninstall 14322 then automatically go back to 10586... is this right ?
who told u that? i seen it stay their permanently, the only way to remove it is manually by taken owner ship of the folder.
well i seen the win.old folder in comps and its been their for over a year, and never was removed by schedule task. i believe it doesnt work 100% like MS claims go figure.
Even the manual method doesn't always remove it 100%, it leaves behind drivers folders and files, and system says they are in use if you try to remove them Even had the machine crash by force removing them, so they were in use for something, PITA trying to get rid of them when it does that, safemode and many different methods and attempts finally worked, and the system was perfectly fine without it in the end, so they weren't supposed to be in use
You can launch a cmd propmt with nsudo or, even easier, a third party file manager like xyexplorer, then you can delete the whole folder with one click
Same happened to me a few times on different machines, doesn't matter who has ownership and permissions given to the correct user, it still complains the files are in use and can not be removed
Well that's a different problem. Possibly restarting explorer or rebooting the PC is enough to fix it. Personally I never faced that poblem
Believe me, I rebooted, restarted explorer, everything humanly possible, even in safemode they were "In Use" I literally spent 2 days trying to remove the last 600KB of .sys .dll files, can't remember exactly what I did in the end, I think it was some process explorer / killer program, but man what a complete fk on And here's the fun part, I could rename them no problem, I could even move them to the desktop, I could remove their extension so they were null files, but could I delete them, not a chance How can a null file, with no extension, renamed, folders renamed, moved to the desktop, still be in use by the system, even in safe mode?
Cleanup always works for me, on both the .~bt folders and the Windows.old folders. Only time I've had to change ownership is when I tried deleting those files manually...I can't recall why I even did that... That was one of the main purposes for Microsoft's bundling the Cleanup utility program with Windows, imo.
I believe you, just never happened to me. Possibly something went wrong during the upgrade and windows still used the old files instead of the new ones. Just guessing...