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by xist 1259 days ago
On a vanilla windows installation, almost all of those are only shortcuts to install the application is included as a convenience to endusers who may want this.

You can confirm this by looking at the size of the application when you goto uninstall it.

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Interesting, though more irksome than wasting storage, these all congest and pollute the Start Menu.