Files With Curly Brackets In Windows Root Folder
Dec 29, 2015
I have about 100 files that start with the { character and end with the } character. Inside these two characters are a series of numbers and letters. The file sizes vary from 2-3K. Some of the earliest files are from 2012 and were from prior Windows operating systems.
This is typical of the file name.
{3DA57F32-E221-43FA-84F3-707447B4C938}
I would like to delete these files to clean up my root folder. Why these files were created? Can they safety be deleted?
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