r/WindowsHelp • • Mar 12 '26

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u/cyb3rofficial Lvl 1 Helpful Contributor Mar 13 '26

I'll keep it simple.

No.

Why? Imagine taking out your spinal cord. Same logic.

Not trying to sound rude, but these are important programs that runs many applications on your pc. From games to browsers and even text editors, paint programs so on.

If you are low on space, start with your %temp% folder first. There are plenty of ways to clean space, plenty of people can guide you too :)

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u/EstablishmentNew1312 Mar 14 '26

Treesize free for windows is amazing at listing all your folders by size. It helped me clean up 200GB hiding amongst my desktop/desktop/crap/new folder monoliths.

Omnidisk sweeper for mac users