ctujackbauer
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I'm not sure if this is new topic worthy, or if I should just reply here.
I upgraded from windows 8 to windows 8.1 and ccleaner marks about 5 GB of files for deletion. I checked my c drive, and the windows.old file is 4.4 GB
What could make up that difference of .6 GB? Unused .net files or something? I tried looking at the files marked for deletion, but since there are 124,000+ files, I couldn't really sort through.
Should I delete it and trust in ccleaner? That's a good amount of space on my SSD (its fresh so not many programs on it at the moment).
I double-checked what was in the windows.old users folders and didn't see any files, so I doubt it would delete any important things.
screenshots below
Old Windows installation folder cleaning
in CCleaner
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ccleaner only showed some of the files to be deleted, I couldn't really sort through.
Anyways... I deleted the old windows stuff as recommended by ccleaner. No problems, no errors, everything in Windows 8.1 works fine, and none of my saved files were deleted.
The entire windows.old file was deleted.
Thanks for the help everyone, very good info. I'm just glad my computer didn't blow up.