On 3/22/2012 1:23 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:


You're lucky, I don't have any of those in my AppData\Local directory.

Are they enclosed in parentheses "()" or in curly braces "{}"? If the
latter, they are most likely GUIDs left over from some installation or
uninstallation process, and are harmless, AFAIK. Especially since they
are empty.

GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifiers) are supposed to be random
hexadecimal values grouped with hyphens, and they look like this made-up
example:

{01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789012345}

They are sometimes randomly generated. They have many characters to
minimize the possibility of coincidences. Thirty-two hex digits
corresponds to 128 bits, hence can take on around 3e38, or 3 times 10 to
the 38th, different values.

There are probably hundreds in the Registry. You could copy the value
from one of your folders and search within the registry for entries
containing that value. That might give you a clue, but there are no
guarantees, unfortunately.

Or just ignore the above & follow ...winston's advice :-)


Actually yes, upon looking again, the are enclosed in curley brackets,
and certainly look like the GUID's you mention...

I have installed a few programs of late, probably explains them.

Thanks ,

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Don