update.exe and updspapi.dll?

XP Pro SP 3.

On my brand new 1 TB USB drive, I now find 4 directories with 2 files in
each. I'm not sure if they were there before I first plugged it in. The 4
directories names are:

1b1253bd34b0103908888234
1d7e8ea4d4783ee8daf76ad4e141
95c08cf91bdfc4531fe365ffd8ab
a6e5c9229954c913b0d331aa5cd527

Each one has a subdirectory "update" and it contains these 2 files:

05/25/2006 10:29 AM 716,000 update.exe
05/25/2006 10:29 AM 371,424 updspapi.dll

A search of the web turns up little information and my virus scanner calls
them clean.

Anyone know what they are and why I have 4 bizarre directory names with
these files in them? Safe to delete?

Bruce.

"Bruce." <noone@example.net> wrote in message
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> XP Pro SP 3.
>
> On my brand new 1 TB USB drive, I now find 4 directories with 2 files in each.
> I'm not sure if they were there before I first plugged it in. The 4
> directories names are:
>
> 1b1253bd34b0103908888234
> 1d7e8ea4d4783ee8daf76ad4e141
> 95c08cf91bdfc4531fe365ffd8ab
> a6e5c9229954c913b0d331aa5cd527
>
> Each one has a subdirectory "update" and it contains these 2 files:
>
> 05/25/2006 10:29 AM 716,000 update.exe
> 05/25/2006 10:29 AM 371,424 updspapi.dll
>
> A search of the web turns up little information and my virus scanner calls
> them clean.
>
> Anyone know what they are and why I have 4 bizarre directory names with these
> files in them? Safe to delete?
>
> Bruce.
>
>


You can delete all four folders. They were created by an update to Windows.
These folders are usually deleted automatically once the update has been
installed. That said, it's not unusual to see them still present.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

"Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@SBXXXIX.com> wrote in message
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> You can delete all four folders. They were created by an update to
> Windows. These folders are usually deleted automatically once the update
> has been installed. That said, it's not unusual to see them still present.

Ok, thanks. I though it was odd that the "update" files would be dated
05/25/2006 10:29 AM . Pretty old for an update.

But I'll delete them.

Thanks.
Bruce.