Windows 10: Ramdomly Named folders on C drive

Discus and support Ramdomly Named folders on C drive in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Since upgrading to Windows 10 Enterprise I'm seeing a bunch of randomly named folders appearing on my second (non-OS) partition, with names such as... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by Njonsey, Apr 17, 2016.

  1. NJONSEY
    Njonsey Win User

    Ramdomly Named folders on C drive


    Since upgrading to Windows 10 Enterprise I'm seeing a bunch of randomly named folders appearing on my second (non-OS) partition, with names such as "2cb82a847721fa9204182bfb1c". They all have a sub-folder named "Sandbox". Some I have access to and are empty, others I can't even look into, even though I'm an administrator.

    Anyone have any Idea why these are being created?

    Regards,
    Neil Jones

    :)
     
    Njonsey, Apr 17, 2016
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  2. FREDERIK LONG
    Frederik Long Win User

    destination folder access denied message while copying into or out from system drive C

    Sorry, your reply does not include an "exact folder name", which is what I would have liked to see in your reply. If you require a good answer then you must post specific folder names & paths.
     
    Frederik Long, Apr 17, 2016
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  3. DEVYOGVASHISHT
    DevyogVashisht Win User
    Upgrade to Windows 10, will I lose my data?

    No need to worry, your data with respect to drive C will be collected to a folder named windows.old folder. but for the safety I recommend you to copy all the important data stored in drive C in another partition drive or an external drive.
     
    DevyogVashisht, Apr 17, 2016
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  4. DEACONFROST
    DeaconFrost Win User

    Ramdomly Named folders on C drive

    I believe those are leftover folders from Windows Updates.
     
    DeaconFrost, Apr 17, 2016
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  5. NJONSEY
    Njonsey Win User
    is there any way to get them to stop showing up? If I do not stay on top of deleting them they Pile up fast.
     
    Njonsey, Apr 17, 2016
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  6. KELKEL
    kelkel Win User
    Use a boot disk such as Hiren's or a Linux Live CD and delete from there.
     
    kelkel, Apr 18, 2016
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  7. DEACONFROST
    DeaconFrost Win User
    I'll have to check after my next round of updates, but I think you could run Disk Cleanup and if you picked the option to clean up after Updates, the folders could then be deleted.
     
    DeaconFrost, Apr 18, 2016
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  8. F14TOMCAT
    f14tomcat Win User

    Ramdomly Named folders on C drive

    Yes, that will clean up most of it, but this is a deeper cleaning solution: at cmd prompt, copy/paste

    %SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

    press enter. Check off what you want, click OK. Leave the cmd window open until it is completely finished.
     
    f14tomcat, Apr 4, 2018
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