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Old 01-25-2011, 11:35 AM   #10
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Default Re: Computer help: Windows 7 related

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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.
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