Windows/assembly/Download, what is it?

[Kenny]

Windows XP Media Centre Edition SP2 on Advent laptop.
Under Windows in Explorer I have a folder named assembly. Expands to an
empty folder named Download which expands to another empty Download folder
and this goes on and on.
Properties for assembly folder show 78.4MB, 589 files & 393 folders. The
root assembly folder has a number of files in it but what are all these
empty Download folders, can I delete them?

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

Windows XP Media Centre Edition SP2 on Advent laptop.
Under Windows in Explorer I have a folder named assembly.
[...]
can I delete them?

Not a good idea. That folder belongs to the .NET Framework.

 

[Kenny]

Thanks for the reply, will leave them alone but still curious as to why
XP/.NET should create a load of empty folders.

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Kenny Cargill

Windows XP Media Centre Edition SP2 on Advent laptop.
Under Windows in Explorer I have a folder named assembly.
[...]
can I delete them?

Not a good idea. That folder belongs to the .NET Framework.

 

[lurkswithin]

The assembly folder contains .NET assemblies that are potentially
shared accross applications. removing or deleting them could cause
the program/application not to work. The dowmload folders are used to
store updates to the DLL s that are being shared within the assembly
folder...deleting the update folders may cause the dlls not to beable
to update properly.