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Sep 19^th, 2004 at 5:58am

Stratobat Offline
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Hey Guys,

I updated Ad-Aware SE Personal v1.04 to v1.05, ran it, and found 8 (Used to be 1 when running v1.04) entires for Alexa. When I click on the item details link it says that Alexa comes with Windows. Can I safely delete it using Ad-Aware, or does Windows need it?

Regards,
Stratobat

Edit: I deleted it when running Windows 98SE, but I'm not sure if it's needed for XP Home ???

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Reply #1 - Sep 19^th, 2004 at 12:33pm

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Alexa supposedly does something "unspecified" for Microsoft. Most of the reading I have done says leave it in there. But since no-one seems to know what it actually does........ that is a very good question.

I have opted to leave it alone for now.

best,

.................john

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Reply #2 - Sep 20^th, 2004 at 1:36pm

Stratobat Offline
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Quote:

I have opted to leave it alone for now.

I think I'll follow suit 8)

Thanks, JBaymore

Regards,
Stratobat

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Reply #3 - Sep 21^st, 2004 at 4:57am

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Same here, I have looked high and low for info on Alexa and very little is known.
I have removed most of it with no bad results but it would be nice knowing exactly what it is and does.

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Reply #4 - Sep 21^st, 2004 at 8:41am