From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: November 24, 2007
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Ask Leo Question] - deleting files taking up lots of space
>
> Leo,
> I recently installed a program called "Spacemonger". It tells me whats
> installed on my hard drive and how much space is used up by each
> program. Going over the list I found out that TrendMicro online scan
> has taken up over 1.4 GB (thats gigabytes)of hard drive space. I
> contacted them but they have not responded. I would like to delete
> these files on my laptop but I'm not sure if it would effect other
> programs. Any thoughts?
There's no way to know for certain without input from TrendMicro, but
here's what I would do: look at the files that are taking up that
space and perhaps mvoe them to a temporary folder instead of deleting
them. See if that has any impact. If it doesn't then they might be safe
to delete. (Or burn to DVD if you want to be very safe :-).
FWIW I had the same issue with my anti-virus program, and deleting
what I found was just fine.
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Thanks for asking,
Leo Notenboom
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