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What to delete from documents/downloads ?

Hi techie folk

When i have done downloads (last lot from the dell website which were updates to drivers etc ) they are all in my documents, wanted to clean up laptop today and wondered is it ok for me to now delete these ?

thank you
Resolve not to be poor, Whatever you have , Spend less.

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  • geewhiz
    geewhiz Posts: 1,129 Forumite
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    Once they are installed it's safe to delete all the downloaded files, when you are doing updates you don't need to save them, if you select Run instead of Save you can do the updates without storing the files permanently on your hard drive.
  • worriedsik
    worriedsik Posts: 873 Forumite
    geewhiz wrote: »
    Once they are installed it's safe to delete all the downloaded files, when you are doing updates you don't need to save them, if you select Run instead of Save you can do the updates without storing the files permanently on your hard drive.
    Thank you very much
    Resolve not to be poor, Whatever you have , Spend less.
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