# Weird things in my windows folder?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-things-in-my-windows-folder/50552>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [May 4, 2004, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-things-in-my-windows-folder/50552 "2004-05-04T11:41:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![tucker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@tucker](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tucker)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-things-in-my-windows-folder/50552/1 "2004-05-04T11:41:53Z")

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i just had a look in my windows folder and at the top few folders all began with $'s and inside there was somethng called “spunist”

is it safe to delete these? they werent there before.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-things-in-my-windows-folder/50552/2 "2004-05-04T15:16:44Z")

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Um windows and deleting stuff doent mix. One of my first computer was ruined by deleting a key windows file that I thought was usless. I strongly recommed leaving the windows folder alone.