Thursday, April 12, 2007

Factoid of the Day: 2007-04-12: WUTemp

If you spend the kind of time that I do scrutinizing the list of folders on your PC, you may have wondered what the origin and purpose of C:\WUTemp was. (Play along here; I have often wondered about this folder, having adopted more used PCs than any three starlets have babies.)

It turns out it serves as a sort of work space for Windows Update. If it's empty, that's probably a good thing, because that means your recent updates have gone well. Assuming you're doing them, I mean. If it's not empty, the contents may help you figure out the problem that Windows Update had.

Many more details (you know you want them) on the Windows Secrets site. Search for the string "WUTemp" after the page finishes loading.

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