Is it safe to uninstall or delete AIR? How?

As far as I know—and I won't be shocked if I'm wrong—I have no AIR programs installed in any of my Macs, yet I see some AIR folders and icons on them.
Is it safe to uninstall them? Is there an Unistaller somewhere, or can they just be moved to the Trash and nuked?
I do run Photoshop 13.0.5, Bridge 3.0, DNG Converter 6.4, Illustrator 12.0.1, Acrobat Professional 8.3.1, InDesign 4.0.5, Adobe Media PLayer 1.1, Adobe Reader and 9.3.0. Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger, G5 Quad PPC Power Mac.
Thanks in advance.

Vituvius wrote:
Before I go ahead and uninstall random things, I like to do some research and see if I need it and if it will ruin my laptop with out it. So far I haven't seemed to be able to find anything on getting rid of certain built in software like Lenovo's Thinkvantage Toolbox.
A couple others I've been curious about are anything with Lenovo as the Publisher. I'm sure some of them are beneficial to the architecture of the laptop, but is there any I can go without?
Only you can decide if you need a particular ThinVantage utility. Research what each utility does. Use Search on the Lenovo Support site or a general tool like Google. Then make an informed decision whether you really need it.
For example:
• If you don't often use WiFi and/or you find that the standard support in Windows is good enough, then you don't need Access Connections.
• If you've upgraded to a solid state disk then you no longer need Active Protection.
• If you don't use an external monitor or projector then you don't need Presentation Manager.
etc.
Even if you uninstall a utility that you later decide you still need, you can always download and reinstall it using ThinkVantage System Update. (There are a few exceptions, typically third-party bloatware like Norton.)
P.S. Be careful about uninstalling something just because the publisher is Lenovo. Lenovo provides software like device drivers that are needed to run some of the specialized hardware in your system, e.g. the TrackPoint/TrackPad.
Cheers... Dorian Hausman
X1C2, TPT2, T430s, SL500, X61s, T60p, A21p, 770, 760ED... 5160, 5150... S360/30

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