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Mediatek RT2870 Application

Anonymous
2020-05-24T17:57:01+00:00

I have an application Mediatek RT1870 Wireless LAN showing up on myu list of installed applications and it is using up over 5GB of space.  Is this normal?  Can I remove it? 

I have checked my wireless adapter and it states that it is a Dell adapter which would make sense as it is a Dell XPS27 all-in-one PC.

The PC is running really slowly and I am trying to remove applicatrions that I don’t use to see if that helps. How can I tell if applications are being used by the PC?

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  1. DaveM121 891.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-05-24T18:07:40+00:00

    Hi H11TSR

    If you are seeing that application is using 5GB of space in the list of installed applications, that is just being mis-reported, that is just a bit of software for your WiFi card . . .

    Locate that application in eight C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (86) and check the size of its folder, I doubt it is larger than 100MB . . .

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-25T09:36:08+00:00

    Thanks DaveM121.

    You were right the folder size is 100MB so Windows misreporting the size.  

    Now how do I find out if it is being used and can I remove it safely?

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