On Windows, Microsoft created the inetpub folder to fix a security vulnerability, so it's not a bug, and you shouldn't delete ...

Very specific parts of the internet were mystified earlier this month by an empty folder labelled "inetpub" turning up among ...

That certainly sounds like a glitch that needed to be patched. The problem is that Microsoft failed to communicate why the ...

Canny Windows users who've spotted a mysterious folder on hard drives after applying last week's security patches for the ...

Did you delete the inetpub folder by accident? It is an essential security placeholder on your Windows device. Here is how ...

Microsoft has now confirmed that an April 2025 Windows security update is creating a new empty "inetpub" folder and warned ...

Most importantly, Microsoft warned that the folder should not be deleted, even if the Windows 11 PC allows it to. According ...

Recent Windows security updates released as part of April's Patch Tuesday introduced an unexpected change. After installing ...

Patch Tuesday updates are strangely creating an empty "inetpub" folder in the root of the C:\ drive, even on systems that do ...

Microsoft has warned that users must not delete “inetpub” folder on Windows 11 after the April 2025 Update created it. This ...

In other words, there’s no harm done as such. Windows Latest has deleted the folder – as have others – and reports that it’s ...