A friend of mine has a laptop running XP. In the folder directory he has maybe 30 folders with very long alphanumeric names. They look like " nhsue873kinh289uage4ty7cne" . When I open them some are empty but others have file names that start with dotfx or similar. I can get the exact file name if necessary. Am told these are update files and should not be removed.
No computer I have ever had or worked on had these folders, except for maybe one or two, and all have had multiple updates.
Was thinking of saving his data and reloading the OS. Does anyone know what these folders / files are, if I can safely remove them and how to get rid of them besides deleting them one at a time? Don't know as they cause much of a problem but they sure make navigating the folder structure very difficult.
No computer I have ever had or worked on had these folders, except for maybe one or two, and all have had multiple updates.
Was thinking of saving his data and reloading the OS. Does anyone know what these folders / files are, if I can safely remove them and how to get rid of them besides deleting them one at a time? Don't know as they cause much of a problem but they sure make navigating the folder structure very difficult.