Remove windows boot camp applications

Hi there!
It might be a common question but this is the situation:
I've been using Windows for a few weeks for school. I had it installed on a partition and I used Parallels. A few weeks ago, I have restored my disk to only one, so i removed Windows. Afterwards I had Parallels uninstalled but I keep getting "My boot camp applications" in my user folder, and they also show up in Launchpad. Quite annoying!
Can I just select all the applications and remove them, or select the "My boot camp applications" folder and remove it?
Thanks!

Yes, removing that folder should do the trick.
The correct sequence would have been:
1. remove the Windows VM from within Parallels
2. remove Parallelsl using the Parallels Uninstaller.app
3. use the BootCamp Assistant to remove the BootCamp Windows partition
Stefan

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