I've seen this with interrupted updates - temp folders that do not get
deleted.
- after everything is updated & running fine for a week (or maybe less),
they should be OK to remove - especially the "coded" ones
"Allenh [MSFT]" <a-> wrote in message
news:...
>I would not recommend removing the files. I've searched and I'm not seeing
>an articles or issues relating to Windows Update with these files. You may
>check other news groups with your reported issue.
>
> AllenH {MSFT]
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> "jes" <> wrote in message
> news:134D3543-CF72-4492-A234-...
>>I am installing the updates on a new computer. The computer came with XP
>> Home, and I installed XP Pro on it, after which I had to obtain a lot of
>> updates from Microsoft. All seems fine, except I now have 3 new
>> directories
>> in my root directory that I think need to go elsewhere:
>> - 4b8bf66c7 (contains sp2/update/update.exe, which won't run)
>> - 5dc99b6309f3dbaf240566a6ec29 (also contains sp2/update/update.exe,
>> which
>> won't run)
>> - I386 (contains asms, system32, compdata, drw, lang, and many other
>> files)
>> Don't these go somewhere in the Windows directory? Should I move them
>> there, or will that mess something up - i.e. whatever is using these
>> won't be
>> able to locate them?
>> Thanks!
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