O que são esses diretórios vazios com strings desconhecidas?

Question

Apenas notei muitos deles na pasta AppData \ Local * do Windows 7 de 64 bits:

Alguém sabe o que são e se é seguro remover?

    

Answer 1

Há uma pergunta semelhante em answers.microsoft.com :

What is creating the hex folders (hex names in curly braces) that are piling up in my user's appdata/local folder?

The appdata/local folder for that user keeps getting new hex folder names (Long names containing Hex digits and dashes, surrounded by curly braces) created in it. […] What application(s) or OS function(s) are creating these folders? […] Are they safe to delete directly via Windows Explorer?

A resposta:

I think you'll find that at least some of these folders are created each time Windows Live Setup performs its twice-daily version check. You can compare the timestamps on the folders with the log files created at the same time at %localappdata%\Microsoft\WLSetup\Logs.

The product team say (via PM) that the folders are supposed to be deleted when setup is finished, and if they aren't, it might be because AV software has a lock on them. I don't believe that.

So long as they're empty, they can safely be deleted.

    

Answer 2

Eu vi algo semelhante em um laptop em minha casa e os excluí sem incidentes (depois de verificar que nada estava sendo usado!). Se você está preocupado, copiei-os em uma pasta separada primeiro, apenas para ver se há algum efeito adverso, e depois os excluo.