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weird folders on root drive

I was cleaning up my computer for more space on the hdd, and on the root folder I have severl weird folders, I believe they are from windows update the names are for example:
a3a41046b37f89a26fa5ba56
dc71b4a4b506b50ef3a1090881
e4aa78e85a03aeab249515a8fd
etc
 inside there is an file named spinstall and a folder with a weird name sucha as the ones in the example above. the folders are over 1GB each and have the same content. what are they? can I delete them?
Im running windows 7 Ultimate

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thanks to all of you, you have been very helpful, indeed the service pack 1 has never been successfully installed though it has been attempted many many many times. I have deleted  the  folders now, got 10GB of space back.
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