Is it necessary to have both of these programs?

Question

I am trying to organize and narrow down my software list, and I've noticed that I have both of these:
Microsoft C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4148
Microsoft C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable - 10.0.30319
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They are worded here exactly as they are in my program list. If it makes any difference, I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit.
So is it necessary to have both of those programs to run things correctly? If you need any more information just tell me and I'll add it.
As a side note, I also have both of these:
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Extended
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Are both absolutely necessary?
Please be informative if you can, I'd like to know more about why both are there.

Answer 1

The answer from Christopher is COMPLETELY WRONG.



Anyone who does software development with Visual Studio knows what those packages are. They are the redistributable libraries from Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. When you develop a piece of software with those tools, your program is often linked with libraries supplied with Visual Studio. Since these libraries are not included with the operating system, you have to distribute them with your program.



Typically, the installer for a program will install the redistributable libraries as part of the installation program. The installer for the redistributable packages is also available separately from Microsoft, in case you have a piece of software you need to run that requires the libraries, but they did not get installed along with the software that requires them.



From the link below:



The Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) installs runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries required to run applications developed with Visual C++ on a computer that does not have Visual C++ 2008 installed.



This package installs runtime components of C Runtime (CRT), Standard C++, ATL, MFC, OpenMP and MSDIA libraries. For libraries that support side-by-side deployment model (CRT, SCL, ATL, MFC, OpenMP) they are installed into the native assembly cache, also called WinSxS folder, on versions of Windows operating system that support side-by-side assemblies. For more information on supported ways of deployment for Visual C++ applications, click here

Answer 2

NO! But if you play games or you use any visual language

example Visual C++ , Visual Basic etc. ,Yes.

Look, this is a software which helps windows to recognize a special type of code.

Since you have : (hmm, it seems you do programming..)

Microsoft C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4148

Microsoft C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable - 10.0.30319

It is necessary to have :

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Extended.

Choose best answer

Answer 3

those pieces of sotftware you speak of are the language packs that your operating system understands... you cant run windows without them there would be alot of errors