Is it always safe to erase all the empty folders from the computer?

Answer 1

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I do. If a program needs it, it'll create it. (I usually confine my removals to those in My Documents to be safe.)

-MM

Answer 2

safe? maybe. But do you want it without any empty folders? If you happen to have a poorly designed installer that installs an empty folder so it can be used later, and the program is not able to make a new folder, and you erase the foler, the program wouldn't work. That is, a bit rare. Safe? I guess so.

Answer 3

Some empty folders should stay around since running programs expect these. An empty folder takes up very little space. Only in the %temp% folder can you remove empty folders, as well as other temp files.