Safe File/Application Removal

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"Charlie" <Charlie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Even after I use all of the standard "add/remove" and "disk-cleanup" tools
>to remove everything recognizable to me (applications/files), there still
>seems to be a whole host of applications/files (beyonnd "hidden system files)
>that one, I do not know what they are and two, the properties info says has
>been used in months . I am afraid to remove anything I do not know what it
>is! Can you identify unneccesary applications/files and safely remove them
>beyond the regular tool? Or, just live with it?

I would not touch these files. If you want to find out what a certain
file or folder is for, create a new folder TEST at the same location
and move the file/folder into this folder. Applications that need the
data will now complain that it can no longer be found.

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