Deleting the hidden files and directories draining

My son recently gave my wife his old office.  His run of Windows XP.  I went in the BACK to see what he may have left on the disc and found a lot of directories for games that have not been completely uninstalled.  I don't know what method he used to remove the games, he said it was deleted, I'm guessing he used the method of the program change/remove, but am not sure that I found a lot of directories with files hidden in them.  For example after you type dir /a in c:\my games\mah jong adventures, I found this... 2009-09-10 05:55 listed.  How can I get rid of this?

Very good, thanks for the info.

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