Is it secure to delete this? - VC_Red, install.res, EULAs and globdata files appeared all of a sudden
Is it secure to delete this? - VC_Red, install.res, EULAs and globdata files appeared all of a sudden
Hello! I'm not entirely sure the right forum is for this, so please adjust it if needed. I have three main storage devices in my computer: a C-drive, two game drives (for Steam, Epic, EA libraries, etc.), and everything seems to have been moved here today. I discovered that the Games 1-drive contains a lot of random files. A quick search suggests these might have been created by Windows by mistake and should ideally be moved to the temporary folder or appdata folder, not a random drive. Based on that, it seems safe to delete them. However, I don't trust advice from random online communities. I'm reaching out for a few more perspectives. I just completed a fresh installation, so I don't want to risk anything by removing these files. P.S.: It's also curious that the "Date modified" dates don't match any recent activity except for my Steam and Dropbox folders. How could that be? These drives were recently wiped three weeks ago. Thanks for your assistance!
They are all part of MSFT Visual C++ Redistributable package. For whatever reason they will install on all the hard drives in your system at least that what my experience has been and all five of my drives have those files but different dates of modification. There is some "controversy" as to whether they are safe to delete (Google can be your friend). Since all of them are quite small just leave them alone.
I could leave them, but they’re in the root folder of that storage, which means I always see them whenever I need access. I can’t locate similar files elsewhere. And why are the install dates listed? As noted, I formatted these drives three weeks ago.
I'm using Windows 11 Pro and don't have those files on my NVMe storage device (they aren't visible at least). All three of my Data Drives have the files, and their modification dates are from 2007. I don't mind them much. Each drive includes folders, so I rarely come across these files. If you think you need to remove them, at least take a snapshot of your OS drive so you can restore it later. Personally, I'd just ignore them and pretend they're not there.