Does microsoft office 2010 need microsoft c++ redistributable?

Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010 need
it?

John Speedy wrote:
Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010
need it?



Can you remember which program first installed it?
If it wasn't MS Office then it was some other software you have.
I'd leave it there. It's not too big (both 32 bit and 64 bit packages),
and it'll save you finding that something wants it back in almost
immediately.
I have versions of this installed for back to 2005; they're not too big.

Ed

John Speedy wrote:
Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010
need it?


"Ed Cryer" escreveu na mensagem ...

"Can you remember which program first installed it?
If it wasn't MS Office then it was some other software you have.
I'd leave it there. It's not too big (both 32 bit and 64 bit packages),
and it'll save you finding that something wants it back in almost
immediately.
I have versions of this installed for back to 2005; they're not too big.

Ed"

Thank you for the info.

John Speedy wrote:
John Speedy wrote:
Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010
need it?


"Ed Cryer" escreveu na mensagem ...
"Can you remember which program first installed it?
If it wasn't MS Office then it was some other software you have.
I'd leave it there. It's not too big (both 32 bit and 64 bit packages),
and it'll save you finding that something wants it back in almost
immediately.
I have versions of this installed for back to 2005; they're not too big.

Ed"

Thank you for the info.



A lesson from experience.
Don't uninstall things at will. Fight that tidiness compulsion.

It's made easier these days by our vast disk sizes.
It's just not like it was once.

Ed

"Ed Cryer" escreveu na mensagem ...

"A lesson from experience.
Don't uninstall things at will. Fight that tidiness compulsion.

It's made easier these days by our vast disk sizes.
It's just not like it was once.

Ed"

I guess you're right. When I'm not working, I have only one open window. I'm
always openning and closing internet explorer and windows live mail. Windows
8 changed this model on apps section. We are now on real multitasking
environment.

John Speedy wrote:
Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010
need it?



Visual C++ redistributables are components shipped by software providers
(MSFT and 3rd party) for application programs and apps who use Visual
C++ to write their software and choose to use Microsoft's code inside
the component (no need to reinvent the wheel).

When a Visual C++ redistributables is on your computer, it is usually
the result of being installed with one of your programs or apps.

Visual C++ redistributables do not supersede each other (thus multiple
versions may exist). Additionally security updates are also issued for
those redistributable versions which may yield additional items
appearing in Windows Program and Features and Windows Update history.

i.e. The safe route is to leave them alone to prevent breaking a program
or app.



--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

John Speedy pretended :
Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010 need it?

Rename it and run the program. If nothing bad happens continue to use
MS 2010 for awhile to make sure their are no problems.

Ed in East Texas

I want to uninstall not install.

John Speedy pretended :
Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010 need
it?

"Ed Propes" escreveu na mensagem ...
Rename it and run the program. If nothing bad happens continue to use
MS 2010 for awhile to make sure their are no problems.

Ed in East Texas

Ed Propes wrote:
John Speedy pretended :
Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010
need it?

Rename it and run the program. If nothing bad happens continue to use MS
2010 for awhile to make sure their are no problems.

Ed in East Texas

What do you suggest renaming ?

Microsoft C++ Redistributable are items in Programs and Features (they
can be uninstalled and in some cases repaired, not 'renamed')


--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

C++ Redistributable is software needed to run C++

Ed Propes wrote:
John Speedy pretended :
Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010
need it?

Rename it and run the program. If nothing bad happens continue to use MS
2010 for awhile to make sure their are no problems.

Ed in East Texas

". . .winston" escreveu na mensagem ...

What do you suggest renaming ?

Microsoft C++ Redistributable are items in Programs and Features (they
can be uninstalled and in some cases repaired, not 'renamed')


--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

you can make everything with c++ code language

John Speedy wrote:
C++ Redistributable is software needed to run C++

Ed Propes wrote:
John Speedy pretended :
Can I uninstall Microsoft C++ Redistributable or does Microsoft 2010
need it?

Rename it and run the program. If nothing bad happens continue to use MS
2010 for awhile to make sure their are no problems.

Ed in East Texas

". . .winston" escreveu na mensagem ...
What do you suggest renaming ?

Microsoft C++ Redistributable are items in Programs and Features (they
can be uninstalled and in some cases repaired, not 'renamed')



Afaics we're past what it is and used for (see my earlier post). My
response was to Ed P.'s seemingly odd suggestion to rename *it*.

--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

On 2014-07-23 10:15, John Speedy wrote:

I guess you're right. When I'm not working, I have only one open window.
I'm always openning and closing internet explorer and windows live mail.
Windows 8 changed this model on apps section. We are now on real
multitasking environment.

That's funny, Windows has always been multitasking, and more so on the
desktop than on the Metro interface where you cannot have multiple
windows overlapping etc.

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(o o) Member-+-David-Suzuki-Foundation-+-Planetary-Society-
oO-( )-Oo Riker to Enterprise, "Beam down Troi and a six-pack."

John Speedy wrote:
you can make everything with c++ code language



Why not look for them, and see how many there
are, and where they are located ?

First, if you need to determine whether a program
uses a redistributable DLL, you can use DependencyWalker
on the .exe of that program.

http://www.dependencywalker.com/

For file names, the download page has a file list. (There
is a download page and a KB article with more details.)

You can select a few representative files.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=26999

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2565063

Msvcp100.dll
Msvcr100.dll

Copies of these can be seen in two kinds of places.
If you use the above download page (26999), the files
delivered that way are put in a system-wide folder.

If, on the other hand, a developer used Visual Studio, and
bundles the .dll with the dependencies in it, that
would be a "private" copy of the file stored in a
Program Files folder.

It's the kind of mess you leave alone :-)
You would have to be very bored, to start tearing
the wings off those flies.

Paul

Paul wrote:
John Speedy wrote:
you can make everything with c++ code language



Why not look for them, and see how many there
are, and where they are located ?

First, if you need to determine whether a program
uses a redistributable DLL, you can use DependencyWalker
on the .exe of that program.

It's the kind of mess you leave alone :-)
You would have to be very bored, to start tearing
the wings off those flies.

Paul
+1

One might never realize after the wing-catching euphoria wears off that
it wasn't the fly but a bigger beast that flew out the Window and
stopped working.

--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps