"You'll need to provide administrator permission to delete this folder"

I have just recently noticed that something - perhaps Windows itself - is creating a metric buttload of folders in the root of my D: drive.



They have hard-to-prono0unce names like:

Quote:

1a131890952795504b7143 1aad1713babfea7515d725 1c9a2fd9e7955c98d590a72427 1dd904739f3079f8a77e2c9bdd41 1eadfda08c0e68544882a52e73624a 2a6126eec5487d6d36246b ...and so on.

Most are empty, but a few contain subfolders with names like:

Quote:

1025 1028 1029 1030 1031 1032 Graphics DHtmlHeader.html ...and more.

Tired of scrolling past the hundreds upon hundreds in the root folder, I tried to delete them all using Windows Explorer.



It successfully deleted most of them, but for more than one hundred, I received the error message "You'll need to provide administrator permission to delete this folder".



Unfortunately, I do not have the administrator password to my computer.



Any ideas on:

1. What is creating all of these folders? (I'm guessing it's IE)
   


2. How can I stop it from creating more of them?
   


3. How, short of formatting the drive, can I get rid of the ones which are already there?

Any help would be appreciated,



-RSL

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