Why does getting rid of Windows.old takes so long.

Hi folks.

This process seems to take ages. It does work of course.

Any idea why it takes ages to do even with good hardware, dual physical processors and a 64GB RAM machine.

I can boot with a Linux live distro and just delete the file -- then boot into Windows and I don't seem to have any problems.

But as Windows users here on a Windows Forum I'd love to know why this process takes so long on Windows. Even if I boot the Linux live distro up from a low specc'ed machine and remotely delete the file it deletes instantly and there's no problem again in booting up the Windows system on that Windows machine again.


cheers
jimbo

Hey mate,

It's not uncommon for the Windows.old folder to be 21+ GB in size, so it will take a little bit to clean up inside Windows. Deleting by command may seem faster, but it's actually taking just as long behind the scenes.