Now sit down and eat your dinner, and stop touching things.
The internet was mystified earlier this month by. okay, let me start this again. Very specific parts of the internet were mystified earlier this month by an empty folder labelled «inetpub» turning up among system files after the Windows 11 April 2025 Update.
Some took to deleting it, which on the surface caused no issues at all. However, Microsoft has now updated a support document instructing users to leave it alone, as it’s tied to a security update.
The inetpub folder is used to store and manage Internet Information Services (ISS) logs, but even users who did not have the service enabled saw it appear after the KB5055523 Windows update (via Windows Central). There it sat, as if it had always been there, but curious users were left none the wiser as to why it blinked into existence on their machines.
