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I have a secondary drive linked to a VMWare Player Windows 8.1 machine from a Windows 7 host. Every day a number of randomly named folders are created on the disk root, all empty. To delete them you need admin rights, and I have to keep cleaning them every other day to not pollute the disk with tens of them.
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Any guesses on whether the host, the guest or VMWare is the one creating those folders?
MLProgrammer-CiM
Posted 2015-03-13T09:47:33.550
Reputation: 153
1Let me guess. This external/secondary drive is larger then your system drive? The folders names are not "random" they are Windows Update folders. – Ramhound – 2015-03-13T09:56:10.140
Yes and that was my guess. How can I purge them automatically? – MLProgrammer-CiM – 2015-03-13T10:17:58.997
If you purge them you remove your ability to uninstall those updates – Ramhound – 2015-03-13T10:19:42.530
Why are they stored on the root folder? Can I at least hide them? The clutter is the annoying part because that's mainly my storage drive without all the windows/program files noise. – MLProgrammer-CiM – 2015-03-13T12:06:42.620
Windows Update attempts to find the largest storage drive. It does this so it won't run out of the space. There are numerous questions on these folders.
– Ramhound – 2015-03-13T12:10:53.393At some point this just stopped happening. – MLProgrammer-CiM – 2015-08-20T10:35:20.047