I'm not sure I would delete any Windows Updates from there.
However any software you have downloaded yourself can be deleted. Often though, we save those downloaded setup files to some other media, CD, DVD, USB drive, etc, as thewy can be useful to reinstall software if and when needed.
Mark
Hi,
Cleaning up my files before backing them up I find that some of the updates I downloaded are staying in the Download folder and some of the programs I downloading are creating folders in the Download folder. Before Win 7 I would only see .exe or .zip files in the Download folder. Am I doing something wrong? I haven't tried to move them - can I without problems?

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