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Re: Weird Directories on the C:\ Drive

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 17:35, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just noticed that I have some really weirdly named directories cropping up on my C:\ drive, such as b1fc066e9aafc4d792ef, 9c5f915595478b81b1c8118929, etc. ÂTheir properties indicate that they started showing up on 15 August and always at 0300 with variances in the seconds. ÂPlus there is a similarly named directory dates 22 August 2009.

They are temporary directories, usually created by Windows updates -
in some cases, they don't get deleted properly.

What is interesting is that you see them at very similar timeframes -
just seconds of differences. It's possible that your theory with them
being related to one of your scheduled tasks is right - are you
running any Microsoft programs in those tasks, that use a similar
random folder algorithm?


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