You may not know it, but after installing Windows 10, the old version of the operating system hangs around in the background and takes up useful space. Surprised? When you upgrade, your old version of Windows does not disappear. It is still at the back of the system and is called "windows.old" and takes up valuable disk space.
You may ask why this happened and the answer is that Microsoft is not as verifying as some other major technology companies. Instead of forcing users to update their hardware and never look back, Microsoft keeps the important files from your previous operating system in the C: / drive. This is the case if you do not like the new Windows 10 and decide to go back to the previous operating system you might be more used to.
If you like the new operating system and want to permanently delete the old operating system, click on the Windows Start button and type "clean up" to automatically search the system. A "Disk Cleanup" app should appear in the search criteria field for you. Click on it to open the application.
A drive selection box must be displayed. Simply select the drive on which your operating system is installed. The default drive must be displayed first, usually the C: / drive. If you are sure that this is the main drive on which your operating system is installed, click OK. Windows should scan your system for a while and then a box will appear.
You may ask why this happened and the answer is that Microsoft is not as verifying as some other major technology companies. Instead of forcing users to update their hardware and never look back, Microsoft keeps the important files from your previous operating system in the C: / drive. This is the case if you do not like the new Windows 10 and decide to go back to the previous operating system you might be more used to.
If you like the new operating system and want to permanently delete the old operating system, click on the Windows Start button and type "clean up" to automatically search the system. A "Disk Cleanup" app should appear in the search criteria field for you. Click on it to open the application.
A drive selection box must be displayed. Simply select the drive on which your operating system is installed. The default drive must be displayed first, usually the C: / drive. If you are sure that this is the main drive on which your operating system is installed, click OK. Windows should scan your system for a while and then a box will appear.
Now two things can happen at the moment. You could get a list of files to delete immediately, one of which is "Previous Windows installation (s)", or if that option is not visible, you must select the "Clean system files" option in the bottom left.
Windows does some more calculations and gives you another very similar window, this time with the option to remove the previous windows installation (s). You may have to scroll down to find it, but it would take a bit of disk space, in our case almost 5GB. Select this option and click OK. Click in the separate message window that appears to ask if you are sure that you want to send it on Delete files and you are done Kees.
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