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| Thread ID: 39502 | 2003-11-08 12:27:00 | Empty Folders in C drive | Scattershot06 (4844) | Press F1 |
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| 190164 | 2003-11-08 12:27:00 | Hi, I'm new here I went through my C drive(the root, of course) and went through some folders and subfolders. I went to system32 for example and found a number of folders with funny names, with nothing in it. I was wondering why those folders are there, how were they created, and why don't they have anything in them? I deleted them, eventhough they (obviously) didn't take up any space, but there's no point in having them there either, only brings confusion. Cheers, |
Scattershot06 (4844) | ||
| 190165 | 2003-11-08 12:43:00 | Hi there, Welcome to PressF1. ...Not everybody makes their first post here at 1:30 in the morning ;-) Anyway, Im going to say a few things: Firstly, if you ever decide to do something like that again, make sure you leave them in the recycle bin for at least a day or two, rebooting a couple of times. They could have been something important seeing as they were in the System32 Folder. Next, if you can remember any of these numbers/digits etc. it may have paid to throw them into Google and see what you can come up with. I hope this helps you Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 190166 | 2003-11-08 22:33:00 | > ...Not everybody makes their first post here at 1:30 > in the morning ;-) And not many people reply to a first post at 1:43am ;) :D |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 190167 | 2003-11-08 22:35:00 | have you run spy bot search and destroy? oh: since u r knew dow you know what spy bot is? |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 190168 | 2003-11-08 23:16:00 | Hi, I think Iv'e heard of that program before, but I don't know exactly what it is. Is it a virus checker? can I download it for free? or just a trial? Thanks, |
Scattershot06 (4844) | ||
| 190169 | 2003-11-08 23:29:00 | I don't know about NTFS but a directory even though empty does take up some room in fat | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 190170 | 2003-11-09 00:24:00 | Scattershot06 The other thing to watch is that the folders did in fact not contain any hidden files - unhide all files first before deleting folders. Oxie (Lyn) |
Oxie (1318) | ||
| 190171 | 2003-11-09 02:24:00 | I doubt emty folders have spyware,here is adaware which is worth having for removal of same. www.lavasoftusa.com |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 190172 | 2003-11-09 10:35:00 | Http://www.spybot.info Download it free from there. You may want to run Update and Immunize then the Scan for Spyware :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 190173 | 2003-11-09 10:54:00 | These numbered folders are Windows system generated folders, and have some role in error reporting as I undertand it. You will usually find a Dr Watson dll in 1033 as an example. Given that they are usually empty, I can't fathom why you would want to remove them, as you would gain almost no space back while risking system stability under error conditions. |
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