weird folders created every reboot!

Hi all

whenever restarting my computer, a weird folder is created on drive c. this folder has a random alphanumeric name and contains a bunch of stuff from windows update. when I reboot, another folder is created with the same exact content but with a different folder name... now, I have about 15 of those weird files . I think that it is related to updates because the files contains files such as:
WUClient-SelfUpdate - ActiveX.cab
WUClient-SelfUpdate - at-TopLevel.cab
wusetup.exe

I can't delete the folders because of permissions and 'folder using'... but I am not concerned by remove them right now. What really concerns me prevents their creation! Another strange thing is that if I connect an external usb drive, new folders will be created on the external drive rather than the c drive.

I'm a runnning vista ultimate x 64 with SP2 on a computer HP with RAID 1 mirroring my hard drive.

Help me ob1...

Hi all

whenever restarting my computer, a weird folder is created on drive c. this folder has a random alphanumeric name and contains a bunch of stuff from windows update. when I reboot, another folder is created with the same exact content but with a different folder name... now, I have about 15 of those weird files . I think that it is related to updates because the files contains files such as:
WUClient-SelfUpdate - ActiveX.cab
WUClient-SelfUpdate - at-TopLevel.cab
wusetup.exe

I can't delete the folders because of permissions and 'folder using'... but I am not concerned by remove them right now. What really concerns me prevents their creation! Another strange thing is that if I connect an external usb drive, new folders will be created on the external drive rather than the c drive.

I'm a runnning vista ultimate x 64 with SP2 on a computer HP with RAID 1 mirroring my hard drive.

Help me ob1...

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