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| Thread ID: 143364 | 2016-12-25 19:16:00 | Strange Folders | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 1430184 | 2016-12-25 19:16:00 | I’ve two folders sitting straight on my “C” drive which I can’t associate with any particular programme. One is 6MB and the other 18MB. As you can see they have the queerest names which I won’t bother to type out. Anyone shed any light on where they come from and where they belong? 7767 |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1430185 | 2016-12-25 19:57:00 | Right Click on them BM and select 'Properties" that may tell you a bit more about them. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1430186 | 2016-12-25 20:33:00 | Tried that Clive but no luck. Here's some more screenshots of what's inside. 7769 7770 7771 |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1430187 | 2016-12-25 21:06:00 | They look like temporary installation files to me BM. One of our resident experts will not doubt be able to shed some light on them before to long. (they must be still sleeping off Christmas dinners) | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1430188 | 2016-12-25 21:20:00 | Just delete them, left over folders from an install of windows NET framework or something like that. You could try reading the user agreement text files for more hints as to what it is if you want (Eula.txt etc) but I'd just delete them personally. Not a fan of installers that leave stuff behind myself. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1430189 | 2016-12-25 21:22:00 | Clives spot on :) They are temp files / folders created when something has been installed. The first one --- are installation files for the Visual C++ Redistributable. The Second one is Microsoft .NET Framework. At some stage a program was installed that required them. ( eg: Cam Software, Drawing / paint programs etc) If you look at the dates they have been there for some time. Created on 15/6/2015 then modified 17/6/2015 & 19/4/2011 |
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| 1430190 | 2016-12-25 21:57:00 | Just delete them, left over folders from an install of windows NET framework or something like that. You could try reading the user agreement text files for more hints as to what it is if you want (Eula.txt etc) but I'd just delete them personally. Not a fan of installers that leave stuff behind myself. Interesting the text files won't open. some help those. :D 7772 Anyway, thanks all, I'll rename them and see if anything stops and if not delete them. :thumbs: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1430191 | 2016-12-26 00:08:00 | Run 'Disk Cleanup' | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1430192 | 2016-12-26 00:11:00 | Thought you were no longer using windows? | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1430193 | 2016-12-26 01:29:00 | Oh, don't wind him up. | Driftwood (5551) | ||
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