In the past I've seen a lot of crap folders in there, all with roughly the same name. I think they come and go with each round of Windows Update, but I'm not sure. Tonight there's a whole ton of the little buggers in there. They're all first in line, at the top of the folder.
The first one is called $hf_mig$ It is 1.62Gb in size, and it is chock full of folders called variations of: KB834707. The numbers differ but they all start with KB. Each folder varies in size a bit, from around 800 kb in size to upwards of 4 Mb. I didn't count how many of these subfolders there are in that folder, but it is a LOT.
Next in line in the WINDOWS folder, are 469 folders named with a blue colour. They all have similar names to: $NtUninstall...
if you highlight one of these blue named folders you see numbers at the end of its name. Each one of these 469 folders has a subfolder called Spuninst inside of it, plus a whole lot, or a few, icons most of which usually seem to be .dll files.
The spuninst folder itself always has four icons in it, one of which is always spuninst.exe, and 1 txt file, 1 dll file, and 1 inf file.
Last but not least before the usual suspects contained inside a typical WINDOWS folder is the folder $xpsp1hfm$
Inside this little bugger is a whole bunch of stuff, all related to spuninst.exe and friends.
My question is:
WTF is this stuff? WTF is spuninst? And is there a safe way to remove it all? Or is it supposed to be there, and I should ignore it?
(But 469 folders??? That can't be right???)
p.s. I also found a number of text files sitting in the WINDOWS folder, called KB1234567.log
So there's even MORE carp related to all this spuninst nonsense.
