HOW TO DELETE WINDOW. OLD

Have you ever done a clean install on Vista or windows 7 ? There's always a nagging folder ,WINDOWS. OLD, that never gets deleted  becouse it has traces of active previous windows files. This happens when you didn't format the drive you just did a clean install  .

Now to delete it,  you must be a novice working with CMD. If not am also going to give you a simple way through in this LINK.

1. Open an Elevated Command Prompt
Start - type in Search box -> CMD find at top - Right
Click on - RUN AS ADMIN
How to Open a Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 7
2. The Prompt probably looks like C:\Windows
\System32>
Type this at the prompt and then hit ENTER
CD\
Now the prompt should look like C:\>
3: Type this at the prompt and then hit ENTER
DIR Windows.old
Should look like C:\>DIR Windows.old
It should return
Directory of C:\Windows.old
and show the contents of Windows.old
That is just to make sure the Windows.old folder is
under C: (the C Drive) - if not STOP
4. Type this at the prompt and then hit ENTER
Attrib -r -a -s -h C:\Windows.old /S /D
Should look like C:\>Attrib -r -a -s -h C:\Windows.old /
S /D
(there are SPACES between Attrib and -r and -a and -s
and -h and C:\Windows.old and /S
and /D). The C:\ is the drive Windows.old is located on.
It should return you to the prompt C:\ if it shows and
ERROR then STOP - check the command
and if it was typed correctly you are not in the correct
spot. You may need to run the TAKEOWN
command :
TAKEOWN /f Windows.old /a /r
and repeat Step 4 - were you using an Elevated
Command Prompt? Are you logged to an
ADMIN account?
5. Type this at the prompt and then hit ENTER
RD /s Windows.old
Should look like C:\>RD /s Windows.old
(there are SPACES between RD and /s and
Windows.old )
Will return Windows.old, are your sure Y/N type Y
(If you get a message that you do not have Ownership
Rights then issue this command
and hit ENTER
TAKEOWN /f Windows.old /a /r
and repeat Step 5 - were you using an Elevated
Command Prompt? Are you logged to an
ADMIN account?
6: Type this at the prompt and then hit ENTER
DIR Windows.old
Should look like C:\>DIR Windows.old - and hit ENTER
It should return
Directory of C:\
File Not Found
Which confirms it is gone.
7. Close the COMMAND window
Hope this helps.