Windows Updates and Gibberish Folders

[Guest]

I downloaded a bunch of updates for Windows XP and the next
day there were at least five folders under C:/ that were
named nothing but jibberish (they were just letters and
numbers like Q34G8RHGYBJ65JF8JFGUB7NFH, etc. This isn't one
of the names, it's just for example). Under each folder
there is a subfolder named download and then in that folder
one file (I think it is a .dll file, but there is other
extensions after the .dll, like _p). What can I do to get
rid of these folders and why did they appear like that? Is
there supposed to be a certain place and way to do updates
so this won't happen?

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Those are just temporary folders created by the updates. It is safe to
delete them as they should have been deleted once the update was done
installing

Nathan McNulty