Re: KB948109 installed files on USB drive - cannot remove them

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Thank you MowGreen. Your recommended action was the right one, and I
successfully deleted the rogue directory. I did try SAFE mode previously,
but hadn't realised that it was necessary for the Admin account to explicitly
take ownership of the files first, nor had I realised that a user account
with Admin privileges would not be able to perform the clean-up.

I'm still curious about the cause however. There were 23.5GB free on the C:
drive, and the files take up less than 10MB when unpacked, so lack of space
shouldn't be a problem. The update was installed using an account with Admin
privileges, not by the Administrator account, but other KB updates were
successfully installed from the same account at the same time with no
problems. Maybe I need to read up more about Admin privileges.
.

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