Cleaning out folders to recover space

Mark Phelps

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Win8.1 has gotten bloated -- so I have been searching for stuff to remove.

In my C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\svchost\ folder, I have 109 hidden xxxxxxxxx.exe files, ALL dated 10/19/16 11:29 AM. This folder is consuming 6.5GB of my Windows partition -- and I'd like to reclaim that space.

So, I looked through the various ProgramFiles folders to see what app I installed around that date -- and there is nothing even close to that date.

It is safe for me to empty this folder?
 
If your OS and Data partition full image backups onto external media are recent, current -- delete away.

Sorry I did not respond sooner -- but I got busy doing other stuff and forgot I did this post.

Anyway -- I made an image backup, cleared out the svchost folder -- and will see what happens. So far (the same day) have not encountered any problems.

NOTE: Did an online search for help on this but the only posts I could find were related to the svchost malware issue.
 
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