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Joe Grover
Over the last couple of weeks I am finding random machines that have a D:
drive not having Windows Update folders removed after updates have been
applied and the system is rebooted.
I have several Windows 2000 servers that receive their updates via a product
called Kaseya, and I was thinking it had something to do with that as it
began shortly after we applied some updates to Kaseya and modified our patch
management process.
However I just noticed that my home PC (Windows XP Professional that is not
managed by anything in our office, heh) also has these folders.
The folders are strings of alphanumeric characters (like
3bc8f5b8d03c903ca7d63db2 and 7f7b9ea31a8cf5cf1447fcac817788a5) and each of
them contains a folder called "update". The contents of this folder varies
depending on what the specific patch is for. May of the folders on my
Windows 2000 servers contain only a 43KB file called "iecustom.dll". Hy
home PC has folders like:
D:\0c4842dab66d248996f219c973\update\update.exe and updspapi.dll
D:\bd0ba71534a1b8b54eb3ee176b69\update\updspapi.dll
D:\fb2af0e560a2d943c6103526\update\update.exe and wgawizard.dll
I don't see this folders on the C: drives of any of the machines I've looked
at, and it doesn't affect all machines with a D: drive (such as our Windows
2003/Exchange 2003 server).
What could be causing this? I'm sure I can probably remove the folders, but
I'm wondering if this is just something buggy with a recent update that's
caused this? The XP machine I have at home was just reloaded and these
folders showed up upon running the initial batch of critical updates using
Windows Update.
Joe
drive not having Windows Update folders removed after updates have been
applied and the system is rebooted.
I have several Windows 2000 servers that receive their updates via a product
called Kaseya, and I was thinking it had something to do with that as it
began shortly after we applied some updates to Kaseya and modified our patch
management process.
However I just noticed that my home PC (Windows XP Professional that is not
managed by anything in our office, heh) also has these folders.
The folders are strings of alphanumeric characters (like
3bc8f5b8d03c903ca7d63db2 and 7f7b9ea31a8cf5cf1447fcac817788a5) and each of
them contains a folder called "update". The contents of this folder varies
depending on what the specific patch is for. May of the folders on my
Windows 2000 servers contain only a 43KB file called "iecustom.dll". Hy
home PC has folders like:
D:\0c4842dab66d248996f219c973\update\update.exe and updspapi.dll
D:\bd0ba71534a1b8b54eb3ee176b69\update\updspapi.dll
D:\fb2af0e560a2d943c6103526\update\update.exe and wgawizard.dll
I don't see this folders on the C: drives of any of the machines I've looked
at, and it doesn't affect all machines with a D: drive (such as our Windows
2003/Exchange 2003 server).
What could be causing this? I'm sure I can probably remove the folders, but
I'm wondering if this is just something buggy with a recent update that's
caused this? The XP machine I have at home was just reloaded and these
folders showed up upon running the initial batch of critical updates using
Windows Update.
Joe