Can I delete these
LynnMar:
A few weeks ago when dell had to put in the third cd/dvd drive in my computer, they said that I had to have a new install of windows because all my files were messed up but when they told me what to do over the phone. I ended up with a folder in my os under program files, under windows that says "windows old". I don't want all those files on my computer but I hate to call them, it takes forever to get through to them and then you get some foreign person and I can never understand what they are saying. :D My friend said that did some kind of restore instead of a clean install.
Here is a picture of them but I cannot get into system32 like you could on XP. thanks
LynnMar:
thanks jordi. I am going to delete and cross my fingers. I know I hate dell support but it is free for a year after computer purchase and I don't have a lot of money or I would go someplace else. ;)
Annan:
Quote from: jordi on 2009 July 16, 05:58:47
Windows.old can be deleted if you're sure you've got everything working again.
Since you reinstalled in C:\Windows again it has renamed those files it cannot reuse, like the windir, Progfiles, and parts of the Users directories.
Also, Dell = Fail. You're much better off enlisting the skills of a local geek or going to a small computer shop to get your PC fixed, at least there you won't get some Indian script-reading call-centre monkey who has no idea what he is talking about, but an actual human who has touched the inside of a computer.
People from India are not real people now?
J. M. Pescado:
Jordi wasn't talking about people from India, he was talking about the practice of employing monkeys to staff call centers, which are then outsourced to India because it reduces the cost of acquiring monkeys, where monkeys are an indigenous species and do not have to be imported. It is more difficult to import monkeys to where they are not indigenous due to legal restrictions upon trafficking in monkeys.
Annan:
It is not the monkey part I have issues with, it is that you followed it with that she could get an actual person to fix her computer, as opposed to someone in India working in a call centre. Even if you leave out the monkey part, you are saying that people in India are not even human.
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