Stopping the dumping

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I did have problems with system restore doing this (and I haven't sorted that
out yet as I haven't been satisfied with the responses on that) I do now have
another question to ask as having gone through the current updates yesterday
and other things as well.

Is there any way to stop windows XP from using a external hard drive as a
dumping ground for temp files and files that have no use once they have been
installed?

The only reason I'm asking this now is after I went through all the updates
for windows XP yesterday I checked the external drive (as I noticed activity
in the drive when the updates were installing) and found a new folder in the
root of the drive that related to the XML update.
This also happened when I downloaded IE7 through updates as when it started
the installation process it dumped all the files onto the external drive and
not the one that windows was installed on.

I'm now quite frankly sick of this and am fed up of this form of electronic
fly-tipping
 
Those operations are automatically assigned to the drive/volume having
the largest amount of free space. I believe the other criteria is to use an
NTFS volume & not a FAT32 one. As far as I know there is no way to
force or direct the downloads/unpacking operations to a specific drive.
It ( Microsoft or Windows Update ) doesn't follow the Temp variables
where most of these operations normally occur.
 
The folder you are speaking of appears to be created on the drive that
contains the most free space. At least that has been the occurrence on the
computers I have seen since Tuesday. If your external drive is connected,
and energized, it is a possible candidate for this file. Just delete it.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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