Computer help: Windows 7 related

[Sauer Grapes]

Originally Posted by 357

Windows.old exists because there are two copies of Windows installed. I'm guessing you had some problems and ran a repair/recovery option to fix Windows 7. This is why you have two copies.

Move, not copy, all your files into the C:\Public folder. Then you should be able to see them from your other computer.

window.old is automatically installed if you do an "upgrade" to windows 7. There is probably a way to get it not to be there when upgrading, but it automatically put it on mine and I had to get rid of it. I eventually did a "non-upgrade" fresh install of 7 after making sure I had everything I wanted to keep on backups and it freed up even more space than just windows.old.

I've never had the window.old before on an upgrade.