What Created this KB Update and contents - Looks like a windows update ??

[Al Dykes]

The Z drive is a big fast drive that has a tmp folder and swap on it.
I just notices this weird folder name and the contents look like a KB
update (w2k system).

Why is MS putting this here ? I'll guess that they were trying to put
it in TMP and missed. At least they put it on the right drive.


Z:\b1315e7d456dc78957a9>dir
Volume in drive Z is BU
Volume Serial Number is 440F-3F62

Directory of Z:\b1315e7d456dc78957a9

10/14/2004 05:39p <DIR> .
10/14/2004 05:39p <DIR> ..
10/14/2004 05:39p 0 cmd.exe
10/14/2004 05:39p <DIR> download
08/25/2004 11:36a 5,149 empty.cat
10/14/2004 05:39p 0 rdpwd.sys
10/14/2004 05:39p 0 sp3res.dll
08/25/2004 11:36a 6,656 spmsg.dll
08/25/2004 11:36a 169,984 spuninst.exe
10/14/2004 05:39p <DIR> uniproc
10/14/2004 05:39p <DIR> update
10/14/2004 05:39p 0 user32.dll
10/14/2004 05:39p 0 userenv.dll
10/14/2004 05:39p 0 win32k.sys
08/16/2004 05:38p 11,498 Windows2000-KB841533-x86-ENU.psm
08/24/2004 05:59p 182,544 winlogon.exe
11 File(s) 375,831 bytes
5 Dir(s) 19,307,577,344 bytes free

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

The Z drive is a big fast drive that has a tmp folder and swap on it.
I just notices this weird folder name and the contents look like a KB
update (w2k system).

Why is MS putting this here ? I'll guess that they were trying to put
it in TMP and missed. At least they put it on the right drive.


Z:\b1315e7d456dc78957a9>dir
Volume in drive Z is BU
(snip)

Hi

Windows updates creates a temporary folder with a "random" name on the
root of the fixed disk with most free space. There is no way to change
this behavior as far as I know.

 

[Alex Nichol]

The Z drive is a big fast drive that has a tmp folder and swap on it.
I just notices this weird folder name and the contents look like a KB
update (w2k system).

Why is MS putting this here ? I'll guess that they were trying to put
it in TMP and missed. At least they put it on the right drive.

It will be the working files unpacked from a Windows Update, and should
have been deleted when the Install phase completed - perhaps it failed.
Update tends to look for the drive with most available space and makes
its working folder directly in the root of that. You can delete the
folder