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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1103366" data-attributes="member: 78686">I agree with this. What I do is, every few months I manually visit appdata local, roaming, programdata folders to see if there is anything unnecessary in those from the folders like something I installed in the past but those are not in the system anymore. I often find such things and when I do I copy that folder&#039;s location and put it in HiBit&#039;s force uninstall wizard to scan for any other leftovers related to that including registry entries. HiBit sometimes find those things and I let it delete them. But I never use the empty folder scanning option. From your screenshot for example, I see folders like SoftwareDistribution in ProgramData. That&#039;s a folder where windows will keep downloaded windows update files. So, it would be unwise to delete folders like that. Windows will likely create those folders anyway when required but you never know when deleting such things would lead to a system breakage. So, avoid deleting anything system related.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1103366, member: 78686"] I agree with this. What I do is, every few months I manually visit appdata local, roaming, programdata folders to see if there is anything unnecessary in those from the folders like something I installed in the past but those are not in the system anymore. I often find such things and when I do I copy that folder's location and put it in HiBit's force uninstall wizard to scan for any other leftovers related to that including registry entries. HiBit sometimes find those things and I let it delete them. But I never use the empty folder scanning option. From your screenshot for example, I see folders like SoftwareDistribution in ProgramData. That's a folder where windows will keep downloaded windows update files. So, it would be unwise to delete folders like that. Windows will likely create those folders anyway when required but you never know when deleting such things would lead to a system breakage. So, avoid deleting anything system related. [/QUOTE]

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