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I bought a laptop touch screen Dell computer from a pawn shop for a great deal it's very good I was just going to reset it and put it back to the original so I can set it like I want to but before I deleted all the apps I noticed that there are a long list of Microsoft visual c++ 2010 through 19 * 64 redistributable and so on and so on some more numbers are they important what do they do and does it have anything to do with the fact that I think this may be upgraded to Windows 10 possibly not an original Windows 10 and will it affect that I know that it said when I reset it it will not go back to the previous windows edition... But I just don't want to find out that I've reset it and now I have my computer doesn't work because I've got some really smart guys computer that built this thing and I have no idea what I'm doing now
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The operating system does not require the C++ runtime. I'd check with the application developer (if any) if any of the runtime versions are required. The better option is to clean install the operating system so you know it is cleaned up properly.
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Don’t worry, you could clean install Windows 10 directly on this Dell laptop, Windows 10 can run fine without installing any Microsoft visual C++ runtime library.
Some applications require redistributable Visual C++ runtime library packages to function correctly, that’s why you will see there is a long list of Microsoft visual c++ redistributable, the previous laptop user use the apps which need VC++ runtime library to run.
Go ahead to reset this PC, you can install these Visual C++ redistributable back from Microsoft website at any time.
The latest supported Visual C++ downloads (microsoft.com)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads-2647da03-1eea-4433-9aff-95f26a218cc0
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