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Does anyone know what those folders whose names are long sequences of hex numbers enclosed with brackets are used for? I have hundreds of them in my AppData directory and a hankering desire to remove them all! None of them appear to have any files in them.
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I'm surprised you don't know what I'm talking about. Under AppData/local are hundreds of folders named similarly to this:
"{00BAC13D-0F69-4EDA-B23D-CB883CE38BBF}". And that's just it, each folder is apparently empty.
"{00BAC13D-0F69-4EDA-B23D-CB883CE38BBF}". And that's just it, each folder is apparently empty.
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I just checked my laptop which is running Win10 Pro and these folders are not present there. The only differences between the two that come to mind:
1 - My desktop is running Win10 Home
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2 - I am not using Norton Security on my laptop. I decided to go with the built-in Windows security, instead, when I upgraded back in July.
Could these be Norton folders? Used for what? Anybody out there using Norton Security that could check their systems?
1 - My desktop is running Win10 Home
and
2 - I am not using Norton Security on my laptop. I decided to go with the built-in Windows security, instead, when I upgraded back in July.
Could these be Norton folders? Used for what? Anybody out there using Norton Security that could check their systems?
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