Deleting Windows.old Folder from New Laptop with Windows 10 Pro 64bit: Is It Safe?

Question

Hello.
I found a folder called Windows.old on my C drive which takes almost 20 giga.
I was a bit surprised because I have a new laptop with Windows 10 pro 64bit.
And on the net I read that these are the remains of old Windows, e.g. 7 or 8.
So there shouldn't be a folder on a new laptop.
Was there a different system on the new laptop before? Is that how I understand it?

And can I delete this folder without damaging Windows?

Windows 10 Pro 64bit.

DriverMSG · Answer

Was it new with this system? See the contents of the Windows.old folder. There may be data, documents, settings etc. from the previous system. Yes.

wertiko7 · Answer

It was so new, I bought it 2 weeks ago the laptop looked like new. Added after 1 [minutes]: And under the laptop there is even a sticker with the logo of the X-kom store with the Windows key.

DriverMSG · Answer

Just in case, show us the SMART disk. We'll find out if this looks new.

wertiko7 · Answer

This is how it looks. Is everything OK? Added after 2 [minutes]: And this is the contents of the Windows.old folder. What to get in to see if there was any other system?

DriverMSG · Answer

Show contents of Windows and Users folder.

wertiko7 · Answer

Windows content. Added after 1 [minutes]: Content of users. Added after 5 [hours] 15 [minutes]: So how about this folder, can you delete it or not?

DriverMSG · Answer

In the Windows folder you have the file explorer.exe - you can compare it with yours and or check its version.
In the Users folder you have the folder of the previous user "gryfi", that is, someone has already logged into the old system on this disk.

wertiko7 wrote:
So how about this folder, can you delete it or not?

I already wrote - Yes.
You can delete, I drill topic to find out what this folder does on the disk of a new laptop.

wertiko7 · Answer

Gryfi user is me.

I read somewhere else that Windows 10 pro also creates the Windows.old folder.

I will throw it when I find it.

Added after 6 [minutes]:

I found this text in an article.

Added after 5 [minutes]:

I can't open explorer.exe but I can see the creation date on it, it was created 3 days ago, it's like these files are mine.

And 3 days ago I had creators update.

Maybe it has something to do with it.

DriverMSG · Answer

Probably yes. File updates can make such copies of the system. If there are no files in your folder that you prefer not to lose, then you can delete the whole.

wertiko7 · Answer

Are there any system restore files in this Windows.old folder? I am a bit afraid that if I delete it, I may not have the option to restore the system in the event of a failure.

DriverMSG · Answer

There are no files of this type. You can make yourself a system restore point.

wertiko7 · Answer

Ok thanks for help.

r103 · Answer

I also got a few days ago updated seriously win10 including creators update - that is, it turned off 10 times with this update. And I'm checking it - in cleaning the disk clean system files - there were about 20 GB of old files from before the update.

wertiko7 · Answer

Is this Windows.old folder created before or after creators update?

r103 · Answer

Well, rather because I noticed that the disk decreased by 20 GB which with a 120 GB SSS drive was not difficult

wertiko7 · Answer

Have you previously had another version of Windows on this drive?

r103 · Answer

Well, I do not know what's going on - but I serve: this disk was in another computer and the current one is win10 all the time I think there was an update that you had to install again because everything broke

wertiko7 · Answer

Ok thanks for help.

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