Is it safe to delete the Windows logs folder?

Is it safe to delete the contents of the following Windows logs folder: C:\Windows\Logs (OS: Windows Vista)

 Directory of c:\Windows\Logs
10-02-2009 21:23 <DIR> .
10-02-2009 21:23 <DIR> ..
18-06-2011 20:08 <DIR> CBS
30-01-2009 11:54 <DIR> DPX
07-07-2011 13:03 <DIR> SystemRestore 0 File(s) 0 bytes 5 Dir(s) 14,071,410,688 bytes free

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Log usually may have their function just to register some events for future analisis, as definition you shouldn't have any problems when deleting logs. However, if you want to take a try, save a backup image from your disk (with clonezilla or similar for example), delete your logs and test your system for some time. If anything wrong happends then your log clean was sucessfull. PS: Dont forget to post your results here on superuser please :D

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The answer is generally, no, but some of the sub-folders maybe. Which sub-folders have the most data, and give me an idea of what it looks like.

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