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April 24th 10, 12:11 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
Can one safely "uninstall" some of the .NET
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April 24th 10, 12:21 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
"Rick Merrill" wrote in message
... Can one safely "uninstall" some of the .NET installations? Probably not: MS documentation says if you need NET.3 at all, you need NET.2 and NET.1 as well. That is the way it is built. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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April 24th 10, 12:21 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
"Rick Merrill" wrote in message
... Can one safely "uninstall" some of the .NET installations? Probably not: MS documentation says if you need NET.3 at all, you need NET.2 and NET.1 as well. That is the way it is built. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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April 24th 10, 12:23 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
Rick Merrill wrote:
Can one safely "uninstall" some of the .NET installations? Yes... no... and maybe. Any application that makes use of any of them will no longer work if you remove them. Also note that dot nets are not backward compatible, an application coded with .net1 cannot use .net3, it needs the proper .net version installed. Safely remove them? Only if you are certain that you have no applications that use them, and knowing or finding out if you have such applications and which version they use would be more of a headache than just leaving the different .nets installed. John
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April 24th 10, 12:23 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
Rick Merrill wrote:
Can one safely "uninstall" some of the .NET installations? Yes... no... and maybe. Any application that makes use of any of them will no longer work if you remove them. Also note that dot nets are not backward compatible, an application coded with .net1 cannot use .net3, it needs the proper .net version installed. Safely remove them? Only if you are certain that you have no applications that use them, and knowing or finding out if you have such applications and which version they use would be more of a headache than just leaving the different .nets installed. John
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April 24th 10, 03:26 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
John John - MVP wrote:
Rick Merrill wrote: Can one safely "uninstall" some of the .NET installations? Yes... no... and maybe. Any application that makes use of any of them will no longer work if you remove them. Also note that dot nets are not backward compatible, an application coded with .net1 cannot use .net3, it needs the proper .net version installed. Safely remove them? Only if you are certain that you have no applications that use them, and knowing or finding out if you have such applications and which version they use would be more of a headache than just leaving the different .nets installed. John Thank you. What would be the first step in "finding out" if anything uses NET? (I thought uninstall would at least leave behind any .DLL used by another well-behaved application.)
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April 24th 10, 03:26 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
John John - MVP wrote:
Rick Merrill wrote: Can one safely "uninstall" some of the .NET installations? Yes... no... and maybe. Any application that makes use of any of them will no longer work if you remove them. Also note that dot nets are not backward compatible, an application coded with .net1 cannot use .net3, it needs the proper .net version installed. Safely remove them? Only if you are certain that you have no applications that use them, and knowing or finding out if you have such applications and which version they use would be more of a headache than just leaving the different .nets installed. John Thank you. What would be the first step in "finding out" if anything uses NET? (I thought uninstall would at least leave behind any .DLL used by another well-behaved application.)
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April 24th 10, 04:11 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
Rick
Very simple. Did you install them through WU . If you did then some program called on it to be installed. If you did not install it on your own then a program that you installed it by needing it. The dot NET gets installed or Updated when a program calls for it or needs it -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Rick Merrill" wrote in message ... Can one safely "uninstall" some of the .NET installations?
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April 24th 10, 04:11 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
Rick
Very simple. Did you install them through WU . If you did then some program called on it to be installed. If you did not install it on your own then a program that you installed it by needing it. The dot NET gets installed or Updated when a program calls for it or needs it -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Rick Merrill" wrote in message ... Can one safely "uninstall" some of the .NET installations?
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April 24th 10, 06:35 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
"Rick Merrill" wrote in message
... John John - MVP wrote: Any application that makes use of any of them will no longer work if you remove them. Also note that dot nets are not backward compatible, an application coded with .net1 cannot use .net3, it needs the proper .net version installed. Thank you. What would be the first step in "finding out" if anything uses NET? (I thought uninstall would at least leave behind any .DLL used by another well-behaved application.) "Peter Foldes" wrote in message ... Very simple. Did you install them through WU . If you did then some program called on it to be installed. If you did not install it on your own then a program that you installed it by needing it. The dot NET gets installed or Updated when a program calls for it or needs it NET software is used by MS (and other programmers) to enable uploading. We can uninstal all NET software in confidence that, if some future MS upload requires it, we will be directed to the appropriate MS page to reinstal. But this also means that, if we uninstal NET, and some non-MS app later requires NET to upload, we may not be conveniently pointed where to go to get it. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) In other words, if you desperately need the
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April 24th 10, 06:35 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
"Rick Merrill" wrote in message
... John John - MVP wrote: Any application that makes use of any of them will no longer work if you remove them. Also note that dot nets are not backward compatible, an application coded with .net1 cannot use .net3, it needs the proper .net version installed. Thank you. What would be the first step in "finding out" if anything uses NET? (I thought uninstall would at least leave behind any .DLL used by another well-behaved application.) "Peter Foldes" wrote in message ... Very simple. Did you install them through WU . If you did then some program called on it to be installed. If you did not install it on your own then a program that you installed it by needing it. The dot NET gets installed or Updated when a program calls for it or needs it NET software is used by MS (and other programmers) to enable uploading. We can uninstal all NET software in confidence that, if some future MS upload requires it, we will be directed to the appropriate MS page to reinstal. But this also means that, if we uninstal NET, and some non-MS app later requires NET to upload, we may not be conveniently pointed where to go to get it. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) In other words, if you desperately need the
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April 25th 10, 03:18 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
Peter Foldes wrote:
Rick Very simple. Did you install them through WU . If you did then some program called on it to be installed. If you did not install it on your own then a program that you installed it by needing it. The dot NET gets installed or Updated when a program calls for it or needs it Frankly, I 'thought' they were all installed by Windows Update. But I have since removed a number of applications that might (might) have claimed to need it in the past.
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April 25th 10, 03:18 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
Peter Foldes wrote:
Rick Very simple. Did you install them through WU . If you did then some program called on it to be installed. If you did not install it on your own then a program that you installed it by needing it. The dot NET gets installed or Updated when a program calls for it or needs it Frankly, I 'thought' they were all installed by Windows Update. But I have since removed a number of applications that might (might) have claimed to need it in the past.
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April 25th 10, 09:18 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
"Rick Merrill" wrote in message
... Peter Foldes wrote: Rick Very simple. Did you install them through WU . If you did then some program called on it to be installed. If you did not install it on your own then a program that you installed it by needing it. The dot NET gets installed or Updated when a program calls for it or needs it Frankly, I 'thought' they were all installed by Windows Update. But I have since removed a number of applications that might (might) have claimed to need it in the past. Not sure what Peter is referring to. If you installed the Microsoft ..NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update from Windows Update (which was supplied via WU a little over a year ago), it installed an update for .NET Framework 2.0, and ALSO installed ..NET Framework 3.5 whether you needed it or not. As far as I know, that update installed .NET Framework 3.5 even if you had no software installed that used it. Have a look he ..NET Confusion: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blog...showentry=1457 -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 A+ http://dts-l.net/
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April 25th 10, 09:18 PM
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dot NET 1.1 to 3.5
"Rick Merrill" wrote in message
... Peter Foldes wrote: Rick Very simple. Did you install them through WU . If you did then some program called on it to be installed. If you did not install it on your own then a program that you installed it by needing it. The dot NET gets installed or Updated when a program calls for it or needs it Frankly, I 'thought' they were all installed by Windows Update. But I have since removed a number of applications that might (might) have claimed to need it in the past. Not sure what Peter is referring to. If you installed the Microsoft ..NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update from Windows Update (which was supplied via WU a little over a year ago), it installed an update for .NET Framework 2.0, and ALSO installed ..NET Framework 3.5 whether you needed it or not. As far as I know, that update installed .NET Framework 3.5 even if you had no software installed that used it. Have a look he ..NET Confusion: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blog...showentry=1457 -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 A+ http://dts-l.net/
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