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I've  been rummaging around the corners of my Windows 7 & XP.
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Recent troubles with Firefox required me to research all the Add-Ons.

JAVA ....I Don't need it ???!!!
There are these Windows apps / progs that pop up from time to time to 
require updating.
SHOCKWAVE  FLASH seems to pop up every few weeks - I really use Internet 
Video streaming
so OK - no questions about what this update is about.
and NO! I do not want to install 'FREE' Mc Fee Ant Virus thing or the ASK 
toolbar.
But FLASH has a nasty tendency tendency to also leave older versions 
confusing the Browser.

Along the same lines I have accepted JAVA updates for years
& I now realize its almost entirely unnecessary .
Uninstalled & happily searched & deleted the leftover JAVA & SUN folders.
That's a month back & no sign of missing it.

NVIDIA - now here is a nasty one.
Do check this one out.
If you have or ever had NVIDIA graphics on Your Windows (any version)
& no doubt dutifully installed new drivers regularly you might not have 
noticed
it leaves all the older stuff uninstalled.
It often amounts to many Giga Bytes.
See here:
http://www.gameplayinside.com/optimize/cleaning-up-old-nvidia-driver-files-to-save-disk-space/

All the big Corps- INTEL - NVIDIA - ATI  have greatly increased the amount 
of 'extras'
they include / hide / manipulate  us into installing .

I have a ATI card on one machine & NVIDIA on another.
I used to do  Driver Updates routinely just clicking the 'Express Install'
NO more. Select 'Custom install' & see the extras stuffed in there .

NVIDIA has 3D drivers . Both have The SDK files " Software Developer Kit " 
for developers
Audio drivers that want to send signals down HDMI Monitor cable
& add another set (or 2) of devices to Windows Volume control.

INTEL is the worst of the Big Names . Forcing specialist utilities at every 
body
. MEI  "Management Engine Driver"
@"The Intel Management Engine Interface enables communication between the 
host operating system and the Intel Management Engine firmware."@
As far as I can tell exists to provide Remote Desktop features to a few 
Laptops Models - which appear to now be discontinued.
& only for Intel Motherboard's  (not just there Chipset's - only the whole 
board ones)
Much the same with there  RST " Intel rapid storage technology".  That's 
effectively obsolete.
AND we do NOT need there USB 3 driver to get USB 3 performance.

Most users have Intel Chipset's on the Motherboard & need there INF files .
Intel's Disc drivers are good & offer an alternative to Microsoft's default 
ones.
but trying to get & install them with out acquiring the specialist obsolete 
junk is near impossible.
http://www.win-raid.com/t11f23-Modded-Intel-AHCI-and-RAID-Drivers.html
Has lots of Intel Disc Drivers stuff inc. AHCI for Windows XP.

Anti Aliasing ?  that AA graphics setting that comes in sooo many versions & 
has a
considerable performance hit.
Do we actually need it at all any more ?? because of increased use of higher 
resolutions ?
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