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What is MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2010 X86 and what does it do?

Anonymous
2012-09-30T15:53:17+00:00

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What is MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2010 X86 and what does it do?

Every time that I install something this automatically installs.

I have this all the way back to 2008.

Can I safely unintall the outdated entries?

I installed something this morning and it automatilly install this with todays date..

Thank you in advance.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-10-01T07:07:55+00:00

    Hi,

    Microsoft Visual C++ (often abbreviated as MSVC or VC++) is a commercial (free version available), integrated development environment (IDE) product from Microsoft for the C, C++, and C++/CLI programming languages. It has tools for developing and debugging C++ code, especially code written for the Microsoft Windows API, the DirectX API, and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

    The Visual C++ Redistributable Packages install runtime components that are required to run C++ applications built with Visual Studio 2012.

    Different program uses different Visual C++, if you remove one, and a software package explicitly requires it, that software may stop working.  Since many of these are x86/x64 pairs, you may very well need to keep those installed if you want all of your software to function properly.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-02-25T20:05:50+00:00

    Hi,

    Microsoft Visual C++ (often abbreviated as MSVC or VC++) is a commercial (free version available), integrated development environment (IDE) product from Microsoft for the C, C++, and C++/CLI programming languages. It has tools for developing and debugging C++ code, especially code written for the Microsoft Windows API, the DirectX API, and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

    The Visual C++ Redistributable Packages install runtime components that are required to run C++ applications built with Visual Studio 2012.

    Different program uses different Visual C++, if you remove one, and a software package explicitly requires it, that software may stop working.  Since many of these are x86/x64 pairs, you may very well need to keep those installed if you want all of your software to function properly.

    I have the same issue, but my versions go back to 2005 (installed in 2010).  Is there a way to tell what installed programs use these different version of Microsoft Visual C++?

    I also have several version of Microsoft SQL server (2005 & 2008). 

    I'm running an HP Pavilion desktop with Windows 7 HomePremium.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-26T07:20:26+00:00

    If you only have a small number of programs installed you may be able to find the one's that

    use the older versions. Often there will be a sub-folder in the software's install folder named

    Redist, or similarly. The C++ or DirectX installer is usually there.

    While I sometimes delete the folder with the installers (don't do it with games from Steam or Steam will just put it back again) I keep all 19 versions installed.

    They don't really use much space before the 2010 and 2012 versions. Only five of the other 15 earlier versions are over 1MB.

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