"John Doe" wrote in message
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There is a folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on my secondary hard drive.
The primary drive is an SSD. The weird folder is "access denied"
from the XP SP3 command prompt, but accessible by the Windows 7 beta
CD. It contains an "updspapi.dll" file that appears to be a
Microsoft file, but why so difficult to remove?

I suspect it is related to either the SSD drive or the Windows 7
beta.

Mainly curious, since the drive will be formatted.
Thanks.

I too am looking at the same type of mystery folder. Mine was created on the
root drive- a random 26 character folder. It contains 2 subfolders: amd64
and i386. Those folders contain dll's.
I *believe* that this folder was created after I uninstalled Intuit's
TurboTax from the system. But it may have been created after I ran the
Intuit "reboot" prog inside QuickBooks. (Every time I uninstall TurboTax, QB
will not start. I run the "reboot" package which repairs the QB loader -
[nice programming Intuit]).
I recall dealing with this before and I just deleted the folder (after
restore point and backup) without any problems. But I'm not doing it until
I've got time to deal with any unexpected PIA.
Have you installed/uninstalled anything recently?