hi, i am having yet more problems, and hoping you could help me out. i recently checked on my local drive, and i found a whole bunch of folders, but i thought i only had the usual docs and setting, config, etc... i was wondering if they pose any threat, and if there is any way to delete them?

i did a screenshot of the file...

they all have random names.... and when you double click on them, they each have one text document in them, i added another image of one of them.

thanks

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By the looks of things, these are related to Windows Updates. Unless you are running out of diskspace, I would leave them intact. I doubt that they are signs of virus activity [which you shouldn't be worried about if you are running Avast]

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thanks again ash...

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I'm willing to guess, that if you looked you will see that windows update may have left a 1kb file in them (text). I've seen W.U. do about as good a job of cleaning up after itself as windows does removing temp files.

I typically delete the files to no ill effect. But as Ash stated, they are fine to leave be should you have plenty of space.

thanks, i may have to start deleting them soon, i only have 30GB left of a 160GB HDD...

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If you're running out of space, give CCleaner a try:
CCleaner - Home

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thanks man... you are all very helpful
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problem solved on one hdd... BUT SOME MORE GREAT NEWS!!!:

i was (don't know why i never tried this before?!?!) on admin tools, found storage, and computer management... and i found a second HDD...


when i first made my computer, i had installed 2 160GB drives. when installing XP, i got confused, and only made 1 partition, and didn't put raid on... i didn't know what partitions where... i thought i had put raid on, but the wrong one (raid 0), as it said i only had 1 HDD, and that it was local disk, on 160GB??? i couldn't be bothered to work it out, so left it. later, i began to run out of space, and i found computer management. it showed the 2 HDD!!! but it said one was unassigned, so i thought i would try and partition it... i did so, and now i have one partition for:OS, other stuff; one 50GB one for games; and one 100GB one for other space....

nice, and now i don't have to buy a new HDD!!

thanks

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