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Rating - 3.4
Author - Wayne Maples
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Rating - 4
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Rating - 3.3
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Date - May 04, 2005
Rating - 3.3
Author - Tony Bradley
Section - Miscellaneous
Hard drives are cheap and people typically have more space than they know what to do with these days. But, that is no reason to just waste it. When you install Windows patches, hidden folders are created which contain the uninstall data. Viewing the hidden data on my computer, I found 50 or so patch uninstall folders taking up over 500 Mb of space on my drive.
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Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.5
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Author - Wayne Maples
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Rating - 3.4
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Rating - 3.6
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Rating - 3.7
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Rating - 3.8
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Rating - 4.4
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Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 1.4
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Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.2
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Section - Utilities
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Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.3
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Rating - 4.2
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Rating - 4.4
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Section - Utilities
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Rating - 2.3
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Section - Miscellaneous
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