Constant creation of empty folders in areas when IE cleaning

I have noticed this bug for a while now, I'm not sure if it is only on the OS I tested (XP and 2003).

When CCleaner cleans IE, 4 empty folders with random names (X5UQK, UJ1LE etc) are created. This happens each time CCleaner cleans, and the folders are never removed. Obviously this can lead to lots of empty folders over a period of time (I had over 900 when first notice).

The folders are:

%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore

and

%appdata%\microsoft\internet explorer\userdata

I don't know if CCleaner is to blame or the call it makes to a windows component to clean the area, I hope a dev can look into it.

Thanks.

As soon as you clean Internet Explorer will re-create short folder names such as those, etc. Open any folder on your system and Internet Explorer is also involved. just the way it works and it is a part of the OS. Also CCleaner empties out the index.dat files, it doesn't delete them thus not requiring a reboot to delete otherwise locked files.

DOMStore is used by many programs, so something you have installed could create files/folders.

If you wish to clean DOMStore look into the community winapp2.ini cleaning file.