Unfortunately, my Acer notebook uses a different wireless adapter and does not have
any of the items you see, either in ARP or in CCleaner's list.

I still think asking Dell Support might eventually clear up the functions. It
appears they are utilities rather than actual drivers so there may be no harm in
deleting them......but with no personal contact with these apps, I can't say.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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"lisa harkema" <lisa.harkema@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 01:57:53 -0400, "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi Lisa,
>>I think what you may be seeing are programs that were installed by the OEM (Dell,
>>in
>>this case) that they did not want the end user to remove, possibly because they
>>are
>>integral to certain features of the laptop, or to their support plan. Most if not
>>all of the entries appear to be for troubleshooting and configuring an Intel
>>wireless adapter and drivers (does the laptop have an integrated wireless
>>adapter?).
>>Removing the items may well be "shooting yourself in the foot" if the applications
>>are needed for the functioning of your wireless adapter. I would *not* remove any
>>of them for that reason. Have you asked Dell support personnel about them?
>>
>>The most likely reason they all have an "m" at the front of their names is that
>>one
>>method to hide an item in the Registry's uninstall keys is to use the
>>"ApplicationDisplayName" string to identify the items to be hidden. The OEM may
>>have used a script to hide all entries in the Uninstall key whose DisplayName
>>began
>>with "m" at the time the system was built (before you got it and installed more
>>apps).
>>
>>I would be wary of the suggestion to wipe the system and install fresh from a
>>Windows CD only because you may find items such as the integrated wireless adapter
>>no longer work, unless you can download and install the drivers and configuration
>>apps from Dell.....in which case you'd likely be back where you began, but with
>>the
>>items perhaps no longer hidden. That assumes that Dell has those apps available
>>for
>>download.
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>
> Oop. I already deleted some of them. And, YES, I DO have a wireless
> card installed by the manufacturer. I'd better hold off on deleting
> them I guess. I got rid of about half of them. I generally don't use
> the wireless card but I do use it when I travel.
> Lisa