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[Stand Your Ground]

Can I remove these programs safely?

Home Page Protection - AOL Products
HP Games
HP Mediasmart Demo
HP Mediasmart DVD
HP Mediasmart Moviethemes
Lightscribe System Software
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Move Media Player
Picture Mover
Power2Go
PowerDirector

I don't know what any of this crap is lol. If anyone knows please let me know thanks.

[¿Que?]

I'm guessing you have a PC running some version of windows. I would think you can remove all of that stuff, maybe the C++ thing might make some programs stop working. But here's the first rule of learning computers: Have a copy of windows on CD or DVD. That way, if you screw anything up, you can just do a clean install. Oh yeah, and back up whatever you don't want to lose before you do anything.

[Stand Your Ground]

I'm guessing you have a PC running some version of windows. I would think you can remove all of that stuff, maybe the C++ thing might make some programs stop working. But here's the first rule of learning computers: Have a copy of windows on CD or DVD. That way, if you screw anything up, you can just do a clean install. Oh yeah, and back up whatever you don't want to lose before you do anything.
Ok thanks. I don't know if my comp came with one, I'll try to find it and see.

[¿Que?]

Ok thanks. I don't know if my comp came with one, I'll try to find it and see.
You have an HP. Probably came with some sort of disk, but here's the rub. Since you probably have the HP disc not the windows proper, it'll probably reinstall all that crap when you reinstall windows.

But honestly, like I said, none of that stuff looks very important. Here is a rundown of what I think each of them does:

Home Page Protection - AOL Products - probably some sort of anti-spam/anti-spyware thing
HP Games - lame games
HP Mediasmart Demo - media manager, for pictures, videos etc.
HP Mediasmart DVD - DVD player
HP Mediasmart Moviethemes - Have no clue, but probably unnecessary
Lightscribe System Software - for making labels for CD's and DVD's
Microsoft Silverlight - a browser plug in, I believe. Competitor for Flash, but no one uses it.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable - Probably to make some programs run correctly. You might want to leave this one.
Move Media Player - A media player.
Picture Mover - this might be software for a digital camera. If you don't use the camera, you can uninstall.
Power2Go - disc and data burning software
PowerDirector - video editing software. not needed, but if you ever want to create videos, might be useful.

Anyway, some of this I googled, some of it I just sort of guessed. Hope it helps.

EDIT: that visual C++ is software for computer programming. Might be useful if you want to learn C++, otherwise, no.

[Invincible Summer]

Can I remove these programs safely?

Home Page Protection - AOL Products
HP Games
HP Mediasmart Demo
HP Mediasmart DVD
HP Mediasmart Moviethemes


These I'm pretty sure are safe to remove.


Lightscribe System Software
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Move Media Player
Picture Mover
Power2Go
PowerDirectorThese I'm not so sure about. Using an HP laptop? Me too. I think the Lightscribe stuff is so you can etch labels directly onto special CDs or DVDs. Silverlight is something your computer uses, that's all I know. Don't delete that.

You could probably just wiki all that stuff

[Tyrlop]

get linux its 10 times easier then microsucks

[Stand Your Ground]

get linux its 10 times easier then microsucks
Microsucks lol.

Thanks for your help guys, I appreciate it.

[ev]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKTH6f1JfX8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90DKubFKwVo

[¿Que?]

I sorta miss having an artard for president. Much funnier material for comedy!

[Tablo]

I agree. I liked it a lot better than having a secret Muslim Marxist president with just about the exact same policies.

[Jeoh]

Keep Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable, you can safely delete the rest. Silverlight is used for some movies on the internet, the Visual C++ 2005 redistributable is required to run some programs right.

[ev]

I agree. I liked it a lot better than having a secret Muslim Marxist president with just about the exact same policies.

i'd rep that if i could.