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That s fantastic. It was almost too pleasurable wiping out that directory. There is one file remaining which is in the old system32 folder called flash32xxxxx.ocx that tells me I need admin approval (duh, I am the admin) but everything else deleted without any protest. And I now have 11GB free...

Is yours the production version of W8? I downloaded this copy on friday.

"nuke the annoyance" - I love it! Ok dinner first and then let the nuking begin.

Ok, I booted into safe mode but no change. I still can't delete windows.old. So I removed system ownership of the directory so that only the administrator account has full access to it. And ... same result: "you need trustedinstaller approval to delete these files." Beats me. later I'll download...

I went through the same frustration as John and definitely no happy ending. I still have a big fat Windows.old folder smugly sitting there. It ignores everything from disk cleanup (no option to "clean up system files" anymore) to power admin commands and even though administrator has full...