How Do I Delete Old Windows Files?

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I bought a new computer with a new hard drive and had the technician transfer
files from my old hardrive over to the new one. Now I have my old Windows
folder from before on there now and I wan to get rid of it. Problem is, it
won't let me delete some of the files.

It says that the files are in use, but that is not so because it's an old
Windows directory. How do I delete files like DLL's which don't want to be
deleted and aren't being used?
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