I just finished copying them onto an external hard drive just in case they aren't temp files. I'll run for a while and go through the typical Windows forced update process at least once before...

As an extra data point, I appended "-hide" to the names of the two files in question. I have been able reboot and everything so far (Chrome, Word 2010, Task Manager, Skype, VMWare, [Windows]...

Hi Archie,

If you mean this File History feature, then yes; Windows 10 has that feature. However, I'm a git user and haven't played with File History until know. If I go to Control Panel >System...

TL;DR: Thanks for the replies and good guesses, but no and no.

The path to the files in question is C:\Windows\, not C:\System Volume Information\. In my experience from Windows 7, System Volume...

I have two excessively large system files located in C:\Windows\:

{2FD0AD83-973A-11E5-B6B9-ACFDCE21931D}
{2FD0AD87-973A-11E5-B6B9-ACFDCE21931D}

The first is 43.4 GB and the second is 26.6 GB....