Wierd folders

[darkorb]

can anyone tell me what these are, i think they jsut recently appeared, or i didnt notice them before

 

[PP Mguire]

Usualy those are update folders from a Windows update after installed. Ive noticed them before after i let an update slip by.

 

[darkorb]

i deleted them

 

[PP Mguire]

Should be ok. I think they are only temp install folders.

 

[limqareb]

some are from SP2 , but as they said they go to do with updates

 

[Rastalovich]

In the name of good-housekeeping, why the hell don`t they get deleted ?

2ndly, there is a group of viri going around for years that created random filenames - blooping stupid idea to use the same idea with folders.

Next thing will be they aint random, they look freakin random to me.

I got/get them on all my partitions. - wtef is that all about ?

 

[limqareb]

i got them too dunno maybe something to do with the recycler :/

 

[Rastalovich]

For the record, my recyclers are set to 0% on all drives.

 

[PP Mguire]

The only time ive seen them is when installed SP2 a while back and let Windows Updates slip a few times. Thats why i said it could be that. Ive never seen a recycler do that.

 

[nathan]

they are indeed left behind from windows updates, sometimes just with a single log file left in there, it documents the step by step process of installing the update and records any errors.

 

[Rastalovich]

Records errors ? and tells who ? and if there`s no errors, why not delete them ?

.. and again, why the eff on multiple partitions ?

 

[PP Mguire]

It records the errors to tell you if you know where to look. In other words, nobody cares and just deletes them.

 

[nathan]

Records errors ? and tells who ? and if there`s no errors, why not delete them ?

.. and again, why the eff on multiple partitions ?

i think you need to calm down mate, there only folders.... none of us work for microsoft, have worked for microsoft and probs never will work for microsoft. so in other works how the "eff" are we meant to know why they dont delete them...

 

[Rastalovich]

I don`t think it`s some1 from microsoft u`d need to ask the question - coz if they freakin knew, they`d`ve freakin sorted the issue out themselves.

I just seen another 2 in another partition, they have xml-kbxxxxxx-log in them and they`re olde. 645kb and 490kb, there`s a meg. What else do they leave lying around their OS in a similar fashion, hmppphh. hmppppffffh... hmmmmph. - if I set my pc to auto-update, would the megs be growing at a regular pace ???

I bet if u set u`r folder view to hide system stuff they`d vanish.

(I am calm btw )

 

[nathan]

good good tbh i'd prefer a way to keep tracks of what the updates did, i'm pretty sure they are update logs as the naming of the log files suggest. kbxxxxxxx meaning knowledge base. Can't explain why or how they are on your other drives. There are only a few text files, so i'm not too fussed about them being there.

 

[Rastalovich]

Sloppy.