Personally I see no reason to remove mine. It doesn't take up that much hdd space on my system, (unlike what I have seen reported in other systems), so space is not an issue with me. And in fact with many hdd's in the 1TB range nowadays I don't see space being an issue anyway.
There are quite a few empty folders or folders that don't seem to have any purpose, in Windows OSes. I think we would be second guessing what Microsoft's intentions are with these apparently useless folders and files.
Mark
I have seen many threads on the net with different opinions about the Panther folder in Vista, so I still don't know if it can be safely deleted or not.
What is your opinion?
Thanks!

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