Folder is Empty

[Treely]

My hard drive is littered with empty folders. Can I
safely delete them or does some program need them from
time to time? Can I delete SOME of them? Which ones?

 

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

Are you gonna tell us the names of these folders, or shall I consult my
psychic adviser?

Rocky

 

[Treely]

Thank you for answering, Rocky. You asked for the names
of my empty folders.

There are too many to enumerate. There is everything
from a Windows folder in My Documents to a whole bunch of
them in System 32. I find them all over the place. I
just want to know if it's ever safe to delete unfamiliar
empty folders, and if so are there any guidelines I can
follow to tell which ones to delete? If I inadvertently
delete one a program uses, won't it just make a new one
when it has something to put inside?

Maybe I'm a neatness freak, but I find it hard enough to
deal with all the folders with contents without a bunch
of empty ones, too.

 

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

It's never safe to delete something unfamiliar.

Without knowing so much as a folder's name I cannot offer you any further
advice.

Rocky

 

[Treely]

OK. Here are most of the folders' names:
(My hard drive is C.)
In C:/Documents & Settings/Treely/Windows contains
only System, which is empty.
In C:/Windows/Config; Connection Wizard; McBin/Shared;
MSAPPS/MSINFO; MUI; System32/3COM, DMI, 1025, 1028,
1031, 1037, 1041, 1042, 1054, 2052, 3076, DHCP,
EXPORT (I think I know what that is and would leave
it.), FxsTmp, IME containing 3 empty folders,
INETSRV, ShellExt, WINS, XIRCOM.

 

[Illinois Fritz]

Hi Treely,

Question: do you know for sure that the folders are empty? There may be
hidden files in those folders. If you already have your Explorer set to view
all files, then you'd see any hidden files. If not, go to Tools/Folder
Options/View tab and click Show Hidden files and Folders, and uncheck Hide
protected operating system files. Then view those folders again... you may
find some files in some of them.

Fritz216