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Many apps can be selected and moved to the trash, or selected and deleted. If unsure what effect  removing an application will have on your system, you can move it to a temp file so that you can put it back if you don’t like what happened. If you just delete an app, you may not have the option to restore a deleted app. I usually write a note on what I move to my temp file by titling the demo file the “day” you’re deleting, the file and something about the file…such as 31813RomanryGm.tmp

I am use to my own methods….31813 is the day March 18, 2013; RomanryGm is a reminder to me that tells me the title…Roman Army Game.  I didn’t think deleting the game would have an effect on my computer until I restarted the computer and the opening page stalled because my boy thought selecting it in the system preferences as the Home page would make it easier to access the game. So he has his own computer now and I don’t play the game….but now the computer found my home page in the trash but will not open it there. So I have to work around change my home page off the toy and check the system performance before proceeding.

Many applications are imbedded into the system files and are more tedious to completely remove from the system. I simply don’t use them and just know I will have to replace my computer   within four years of its purchase so trade-off and purge the files.