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Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?
"Bob Horvath" wrote in message
... Hi guys, I don't have an SSD, am NOT running Windows 7, and have not updated to SP3, and I have that folder also. FWIW. Bob I have one too and it says in the readme it was created by SP1 for Vista. XP has a had a few service packs so it from one of those, or a service pack to ..Net or IE. It can be deleted. |
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Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?
"John Doe" wrote in message
... Microsoft restricting access to files is nothing new. Typically, system files are never even seen by the average user. Easy enough to delete even if it has access restrictions. Use Malwarebytes and go to More Tools panel and use FileAssasin. I just deleted that folder from a limited user account using FreeCommander with no denied access restriction though. |
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Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?
"TVeblen" wrote in message ... "John Doe" wrote in message ... 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? I take it you're running 64 bit Vista or Win 7. Your mystery folder is probably a leftover from updating the WinSxS folder in the Windows directory. If you look there you will probably see similar strange folder names. The WinSxS folder contains many thousands of subfolders with API files. As a matter of interest, my Vista Ultimate 64 WinSxS folder contains 58,398 files in 48,560 sub-directories for a total of 14.1GB. A 64 bit OS has about twice the files of a 32 bit OS because it has complete sets for x64 (amd64), and x86 (i386). |
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Malwarebytes has a "FileAssasin" for locked files deletion !
Juarez wrote:
"John Doe" wrote in message ... Microsoft restricting access to files is nothing new. Typically, system files are never even seen by the average user. Easy enough to delete even if it has access restrictions. Use Malwarebytes and go to More Tools panel and use FileAssasin. I just deleted that folder from a limited user account using FreeCommander with no denied access restriction though. Thanks for telling us about that "FileAssasin" function of MBAM! I've been using Malwarebytes (free) for over 3 years and didn't know it had that tool. I'd never gone into the "More Tools" tab before... bad me for not looking around just to see "what's there". I changed to subject line so that this post would stick out better in searches. If that's how you found this post, the URL is http://www.malwarebytes.org/ AFAIAC, Malwarebytes is on of the best "nastyfinders" out there, even the free version. |
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Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?
"Juarez" wrote:
"Bob Horvath" wrote I don't have an SSD, am NOT running Windows 7, and have not updated to SP3, and I have that folder also. FWIW. I have one too... It can be deleted. Yours... Mine was not something you could just delete. I could not even access the contents of "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" from within Windows. If it could have been easily deleted, I would have not mentioned it. Junk folders are not uncommon. |
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Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?
John Doe wrote:
"Juarez" wrote: "Bob Horvath" wrote I don't have an SSD, am NOT running Windows 7, and have not updated to SP3, and I have that folder also. FWIW. I have one too... It can be deleted. Yours... Mine was not something you could just delete. I could not even access the contents of "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" from within Windows. If it could have been easily deleted, I would have not mentioned it. Junk folders are not uncommon. Google for "unlocker", I am using it for the last two years, whenever something does not want to open/edit/delete. It gets added to the right-click menu, and it tells you who the locking software is, and offers to unlock the item/directory tree. |
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Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?
"Juarez" wrote:
Easy enough to delete even if it has access restrictions. Use Malwarebytes and go to More Tools panel and use FileAssasin. I just deleted that folder from a limited user account using FreeCommander with no denied access restriction though. You can also just boot Windows into SafeMode to delete the folder. Jon |
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Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?
In article , TVeblen says...
Since when did Windows ever try and stop you from deleting important system files! (other than the usual limp warning: "Do you REALLY want to **** up your life?" YES - NO) Forever. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |
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Malwarebytes has a "FileAssasin" for locked files deletion ! (Was Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?)
"nobody " wrote in message
news Thanks for telling us about that "FileAssasin" function of MBAM! OK, here's another good tip for when you want to see what's inside folders that Explorer claims you are denied access to. Use FreeCommander in admin mode and you can access anything from any account. FreeCommander is a more powerful Explorer alternative. Doesn't replace Explorer and the two can be used side by side. http://www.freecommander.com/ |
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Mystery folder "e8bfcca65cf8e0f3f4" on secondary drive?
"Jon Danniken" wrote in message
... You can also just boot Windows into SafeMode to delete the folder. Jon Usually, yes. Sometimes even safemode won't let you delete a locked file though. There is another prog called MoveOnBoot that will do the same thing as FileAassin too. |
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