Also have a laptop that came with W 8.1 & have upgraded to W10. You do not need Panther directory, go ahead and delete it. Have Windows 7 Pro on my desktop with the option to install W 10. C:\Windows\Panther directory is used during the installation of Windows. Deleting (or renaming it at first) showed no negative effects. After upgrading to Windows 10, you might notice two hidden folder WindowsBTWindowsWS consumes more than 10GB spaces of C drive. If you performed an upgrade installation of Windows the Panther folder can easily fill up multiple gigabytes. If your computer experiences an unsuccessful installation then setup rolls back, you should check the setup error located there. What is Windows bt Panther?Īn important folder within $WINDOWS~BT is the Panther folder, which keeps a black box recording of what happens during setup. When you upgraded your older Windows system to Windows 10, or upgraded Windows 10 to a new build, all folders and files related to your previous windows installation are saved in the $Windows. ~BT Folder is a hidden folder on the root drive where the Windows OS is installed. In fact, in my case, I claimed back nearly 35GB space. The purpose of storing Windows upgrade files is, on many systems, the bootable USB drive. So, if you are good with the current version of the Windows then you can reclaim a considerable amount of space by simply deleting Windows BT and Windows WS folders. Click OK and the Disk Cleanup wizard will clean out everything in the $Windows. WINDOWS.BT folder holds the upgrade files as well as upgrade log. Net Framework 2.0 and 3.0 in Windows 10 & 11 What is Microsoft.
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