Weird folder just apparead in my HDD

[cloudropis]

it's called ad87536(bunch of other characters, I'm a tech illiterate so I'm refraining for posting the whole name). It requires admin priviliges to open but it's empty. Initially thought it was a system thing, but why in my HDD when the OS is installed in my SSD?

 

[silentplanner]

Windows updates creates folders with these kinds of names and does so on the volume with the largest percentage of space available.

So if you have a computer with two drives:
1) Internal HDD, say 80GiB, 40GiB full (50%)
2) and an external drive, say 10GiB with 2GiB filled ( 20% full ),
Then it will create these folders on the external drive.

 

[cloudropis]

Oh, ok. Can I move it to my SSD in some way? I'd like to keep my HDD clean

 

[silentplanner]

you should run disk Cleanup on all drives where click Clean up system files and then select every option below which also includes windows update files follow steps here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup#delete-files-using-disk-cleanup=windows-8
if folder is still there after cleanup you better hide that folder.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there cloudropis,

It is always a good idea to run some antivirus/malware scanning when some files/folders with weird names appear.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD