{"id":495,"date":"2012-12-03T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/?p=495"},"modified":"2012-12-03T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:01:02","slug":"windows-8-deleting-windows-old-and-temp-install-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/software\/windows-8-deleting-windows-old-and-temp-install-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 &#8211; Deleting windows.old and temp install files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When doing an upgrade to windows 8 the installer can leave behind a large amount of data in a few locations.\u00a0 To remove these use Disk Cleanup with the option to clean-up system files. I have gained back more than 30 GB with this process.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the Desktop and open Windows Explorer, then right-click on the system drive (usually C: or D:) and select Properties.\u00a0 Then click on Disk Clean-up.\u00a0 In that window click on &#8220;Clean Up System Files&#8221;.\u00a0 This will add to the list of files that can be deleted.\u00a0\u00a0 In the new, expanded list be sure to select windows.old and the windows install files.\u00a0 Then let the disk cleanup happen.<\/p>\n<p>For another reference see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstawski.com\/archive\/2012\/06\/01\/Deleting-the-Windows-old-directory-after-upgrading-to-Windows-8.aspx\">http:\/\/www.jstawski.com\/archive\/2012\/06\/01\/Deleting-the-Windows-old-directory-after-upgrading-to-Windows-8.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When doing an upgrade to windows 8 the installer can leave behind a large amount of data in a few locations.\u00a0 To remove these use Disk Cleanup with the option to clean-up system files. I have gained back more than &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/software\/windows-8-deleting-windows-old-and-temp-install-files\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10086,10085],"tags":[10088],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labs","category-software","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}