Can't delete "$WINDOWS.~BT" folder after having issues with the insider program

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I joined and then opted out the Insider Program (beta stream I think) a while ago, but apparently it automatically downloaded and prepared an update (to Windows 11 for some reason, I am still on Windows 10 Pro) which I didn't want. Trying to prevent the update, I turned off my PC (which probably was a bad idea). When I turned it back on, everything seemed fine, but this "$WINDOWS.~BT" appeared on my C: drive and took like 50GB+ of storage space. I tried deleting it which mostly worked, but I didn't have permission to get rid of some of the subfolders, namely NewOS which contains Program Files,

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