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Yep, for all intents and purposes it's as simple as that.

If you ran an installer to install an application there might be an Uninstall option bundled with it. That will remove any additional stuff like support files that live in your Library Folder (or elsewhere). But it doesn't really matter if you don't use it, those things are not going to do any harm - just take up a (minimal) amount of space.

So it would be true to say that just dragging an app to the trash might not get rid of all the program - but then again 'Add/Remove Programs' in Windohs doesn't do that either.

Well, there might be addtional steps. If the program involved something that must be run at start up/log in (such as the Palm Desktop), then you will have to remove them from your account's start up procedure (System Preferences> Accounts, click on Startup Items then select and delete as needed), but only if you mind OS X coming up every time you log in with a message saying that certain programs (those that you deleted by dragging them to the Trash) cannot be found.

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