It is safe to remove space takes up the backup files in my hard drive?

My hard drive is more complete without real explanation. So I did a scan with WinDirStat. It revealed that huge chunks of space have been taken up by System Volume Information, such as \{56a6d9db-bd86-11e4-b414-3085a93f2d32}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}.  When I explored the way, it shows that these are backup Windows, WindowsImageBackup, and Syscache.hve files. It seems that Windows 7 does automatically periodically, which explains why it keeps being implemented.

It is safe to delete these files?

System Volume Information contains the System Restore Points, and other (much more critical) data.  If you try to clean it, never do it directly.  Only use the control panel and delete the old system restore points or set it to use less space for them and others.

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