How to Delete the Windows.old Folder Using Free Up Space Tool
If everything seems to be working fine after a few days, you can go ahead and remove these files. You don’t need to delete the Windows.old folder by hand, and you shouldn’t. In fact, some of the system files you need to remove are located outside of the Windows.old folder, anyway.
Starting with Windows 10’s April 2018 Update, you can now erase these files using the new “Free Up Space” tool in Settings. To access it, head to Settings > System > Storage > Configure Storage Sense or Run It Now.
Check the other settings here. By default, Storage Sense will also delete files more than 30 days old in your Recycle Bin when you run it.
Scroll down and check the “Delete previous versions of Windows” option here. If you don’t see this option in the list, either you’ve already deleted these files, or Windows 10 has already deleted them for you.
Click “Clean Now” to delete the previous versions of Windows and anything else you’ve chosen to remove with Storage Sense.
Bear in mind that the “Delete files in my Downloads folder if they have been there for over” option will remove files in your Downloads folder, which you may not want to do. Otherwise, it’s safe to delete all the types of data here if your PC is working properly, but bear in mind that the “Delete files in my recycle bin if they have been there for over” option will erase the files you have in your Recycle Bin.
How to Delete the Windows.old Folder Using Disk Cleanup
You can also use the Disk Cleanup tool to clean things up for you. Disk Cleanup is now deprecated, but is still available in Windows 10.
To launch it, open the Start menu, search for “Disk Cleanup,” and press Enter.
In the Disk Cleanup window, click the “Clean Up System Files” button.
Check the “Previous Windows installation(s)” option in the list. You can also check other types of files you want to remove from your hard drive to free up space here.
Click “OK” once you’ve selected what you want to remove. Disk Cleanup will remove the previous Windows installation files and free up the space on your hard drive.
If you do need to go back to a previous build of Windows 10 after removing these files, you’ll have to reinstall Windows 10 from installation media with an older build.
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