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If you have restore points configured, won't you be able to restore windows.old from a restore point? I personally don't mind if the windows.old directory gets deleted because I'll have a backup.
A lot of people ascribe magical abilities to System Restore, but I personally have never seen it work even for it's intended purpose. I've read that it has worked for some people, though.
Given the size of hard drives anymore, does the whole thing need to be removed. Additionally, they could prompt the user for what they would like to do: Delete it, Remind me in x days, Compress it, Don't ask again.
the user could make a backup to say a dvd or tape or another partition or just rename it. But the only people who seem to be worried and or will have any problem with this at all are the people like us who should know how to handle it themselves. the other 99% of windows users won't notice or care.
it's a non issue in that if any drivers or anything else already in windows.old that Windows 8 doesn't find a need to copy out to its own space already then it is perfectly fine to delete it. They figure that after a month you would have already asked windows 8 to do anything that anything useful in that directory would already have been migrated. So 4 weeks was decided as the number and if you ask me it's 3+ weeks to long anyway. If you have some peripheral that you use that you haven't plugged in to the computer in those four weeks I am sure that you can find a way to get the proper driver for it from the net.
it's a non issue in that if any drivers or anything else already in windows.old that Windows 8 doesn't find a need to copy out to its own space already then it is perfectly fine to delete it. They figure that after a month you would have already asked windows 8 to do anything that anything useful in that directory would already have been migrated. So 4 weeks was decided as the number and if you ask me it's 3+ weeks to long anyway. If you have some peripheral that you use that you haven't plugged in to the computer in those four weeks I am sure that you can find a way to get the proper driver for it from the net.
This smacks more & more like Microsoft is becoming an acronym for BIG BROTHER telling us even more what we can have on our computers & what we can't!
Seriously? Who could possibly complain about the installer cleaning up after itself? The point of the windows.old folder is to assist in the migration from the previous Windows version, and if Windows 8 hasn't needed to go back to that folder for anything in 4 weeks, then the folder isn't necessary any longer. But if it really bothers you rename the folder. Problem solved.
Is it going to end the world to leave those measly hundreds of megs around?
People waste more space on old recovery points (since the old recovery points will, according to murphy, be corrupt if they're ever needed).
People waste more space on old recovery points (since the old recovery points will, according to murphy, be corrupt if they're ever needed).
What? It isn't?
Well, then I hate that feature!
Just keep it. It can be deleted before performing the next OS install... replacing it with the current OS.
Would be better if Win8 would automagically notice if windows.old is referenced, then migrate the referenced part to windows.new and fix the reference... I mean, that would be actually useful.
Well, then I hate that feature!
Just keep it. It can be deleted before performing the next OS install... replacing it with the current OS.
Would be better if Win8 would automagically notice if windows.old is referenced, then migrate the referenced part to windows.new and fix the reference... I mean, that would be actually useful.
It doesn't reference it migrates the driver or whatever to the new windows, but you know people they don't plug everything in and try it the first day, so Widnwso is giving you 4 weeks to plug in that device you only use once a month and then it will go hey new device, there is a driver for it in windows old, let us copy it to windows new. Hopefully after 4 weeks you have plugged everything in.
But who doesn't first thing after a new OS install check they can get to the web. If you can get to the web you can probably get a driver there for your device automagically. But there are cases where someone is unable to get on the web immediately, so they have 4 weeks. There will still be some people who don't get everything migrated, so in those cases backup the windows old.
But who doesn't first thing after a new OS install check they can get to the web. If you can get to the web you can probably get a driver there for your device automagically. But there are cases where someone is unable to get on the web immediately, so they have 4 weeks. There will still be some people who don't get everything migrated, so in those cases backup the windows old.
Yes, it's a non-issue and the folder can easily be deleted/renamed/whatevered, but this kind of thing is annoyingly typical of Micro$oft, the company that brought us "are you sure?" as their stock response to every action and renamed the trash can to the "Recycle Bin", like deleting a bunch of 1s and 0s can be done in an environmentally friendly way. "Yes, Nana, I'm sure. Please send the file to the recycle bin. Thank you, Nana." Hey, my real Nana passed away forty years ago. I don't need Micro$oft as a surrogate.
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