What are these "trash" files on my local drive? [duplicate]

These files are supposed to be temporary files that are placed in the root directory of the largest drive when installing Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable, which is commonly installed alongside many software packages. They can be safely deleted.

Here's the Microsoft article with a list of files.

Per the article above, the following files should be safe to delete:

install.exe 
install.res.1028.dll 
install.res.1031.dll 
install.res.1033.dll 
install.res.1036.dll 
install.res.1040.dll 
install.res.1041.dll 
install.res.1042.dll 
install.res.2052.dll 
install.res.3082.dll 
vcredist.bmp 
globdata.ini 
install.ini 
eula.1028.txt 
eula.1031.txt 
eula.1033.txt 
eula.1036.txt 
eula.1040.txt 
eula.1041.txt 
eula.1042.txt 
eula.2052.txt 
eula.3082.txt 
VC_RED.MSI
VC_RED.cab