How can I delete the Windows.old directory from my hard disk?

If you installed Windows 10 as an upgrade to a previous operating system, you will find a folder called Windows.old on your hard drive. On our test system, on which we installed Windows 10 on Windows 7, this directory is 15 GB in size – and on the boot partition, which is only 100 GB anyway. The problem is that this folder cannot be deleted so easily, as it is owned by the System user account.

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