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Earl Partridge

Flightless Bird
Windows Home...
In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
If so I can not find it.
I should probably just try to remove these?
Earl
 
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Joel

Flightless Bird
"Earl Partridge" <earlpng@pearnet.com> wrote:

>Windows Home...
>In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
>Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
>If so I can not find it.
>I should probably just try to remove these?



Is it just the redistributable? If so, it's probably required by
another program you installed.

--
Joel Crump
 
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Char Jackson

Flightless Bird
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:50:49 -0500, "Earl Partridge"
<earlpng@pearnet.com> wrote:

>Windows Home...
>In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
>Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
>If so I can not find it.
>I should probably just try to remove these?
>Earl


It usually means you have the C++ runtime libraries installed, not the
entire C++ development platform. The libraries get installed by other
programs that depend on them. If you remove them, something else will
stop working. Just leave them.
 
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Earl Partridge

Flightless Bird
Yes, one indicates Redistributable. So I leave them alone.
Earl\


"Char Jackson" <none@none.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:50:49 -0500, "Earl Partridge"
> <earlpng@pearnet.com> wrote:
>
>>Windows Home...
>>In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
>>Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
>>If so I can not find it.
>>I should probably just try to remove these?
>>Earl

>
> It usually means you have the C++ runtime libraries installed, not the
> entire C++ development platform. The libraries get installed by other
> programs that depend on them. If you remove them, something else will
> stop working. Just leave them.
>
 
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Roland Schweiger

Flightless Bird
"Earl Partridge"
> In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
> Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
> If so I can not find it.


It is most likely one of the redistribution runtime libraries.
Generally it is better to leave them as they are.

If you wand or need C++ (or C#) you can get a free version of Microsoft's
Visual Studio for example here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/express/default.aspx?wt.srch=1

Some elements of VisualStudio (e.g. the CSC.EXE compiler for c#) are
included in the .net framework directory of any Windows Version from Vista
Home upwards.

Again - the c++ installations you see in add/remove programs, are most
likely some runtime elements that don't harm anyone and it is better to not
touch them ...

greetings

Roland Schweiger
 
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Peter Foldes

Flightless Bird
No

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"Earl Partridge" <earlpng@pearnet.com> wrote in message
news:eQIen.52245$zN4.29301@newsfe05.iad...
> Windows Home...
> In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
> Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
> If so I can not find it.
> I should probably just try to remove these?
> Earl
>
 
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Patrick Keenan

Flightless Bird
"Earl Partridge" <earlpng@pearnet.com> wrote in message
news:eQIen.52245$zN4.29301@newsfe05.iad...
> Windows Home...
> In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
> Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?


No, it does not. It means that another application installed runtime
re-distributable code.

> If so I can not find it.


It's likely a set of DLL's.

> I should probably just try to remove these?


Only if you want the program that installed and needs it to stop working.

HTH
-pk

> Earl
>
 
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