Windows 10: Random Folders Appearing on the C:\ Drive

I have a few Windows 10 systems with clean installs (not upgraded) whose C:\ drives are filling up with random hex named folders; over 50K of them. From what I have read, this could be related to temporary update folders, but they are not being deleted. The folders are named something like "00b332a3dcbf71fb88" and contain 0K of data, but they are extremely annoying.

Does anyone know what these folders could be and if there is a way to either stop these folders from appearing or at minimum, to redirect them to another location not on the root of the C:\ drive? If these are related to Windows updates, I will not be able to shut those off as these systems are all part of a group policy that keeps them on. I can shut down that policy, but prefer not to have to do that.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

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Randomizing Files in a Folder

Can anyone tell me if I can set a folder in my C: drive to randomly sort the files in the folder if I want to randomize the files at that particular minute?

 

Strange folders are appearing in 'C' root drive

A couple of weeks after upgrading to Windows 10 Enterprise, I went to my secondary hard drive to look for some files and discovered there were over 1.5 million folders like these on the root. Needless to say this made navigating nearly impossible. Using
powershell scripts I am able to pare this down to a mere 129K, but I am still seeing 10s of thousands appear each day. What exactly are these folders and how can they be managed/stopped. At least let me point them to a subfolder.

 

Do you use Windows Live Essentials?
There is workaround in the form of a clean-up script, see here
I'd also try an optimiser like BoostSpeed, see here

 

Great, thanks. I will give that a try.