win7 Computer Cleaning

[Dot Matrix]

Anyone here smart enough to know what all this junk is, and if it can be removed? I know some of this stuff belongs to Office and Live Essentials, but to me this is nothing but garbage I'm hoping to clean up a little.

Thanks

[a1ien]

Do you have Visual Studio installed? It installs many of those. Anyways, some programs or services you installed depend on those and if you start removing them eventually something you use will break. When I install VS I uncheck whatever I don't use to make it a little cleaner.

I have found that removing the original program does not always remove all of them... if you DO remove them all and things break, you can fix it by uninstalling and re-installing what programs you need to work. So the situation is not all that bad.

[Dot Matrix]

I had Visual Studio, it's since gone. It would have been nice if it had done a little house cleaning before I kicked it out though.

[The Dark Knight]

It should be safe to remove all of that then. Though I don't know for sure, there could be some dependencies with other programs.

[TheDarkLord]

Looks like you are using Visual studio. I'd personally prefer to install only those components which I am going to use. If you arent using some of those, remove visual studio and reinstall it with only the ones which you require.

Hope this helps...

[thartist]

Yes, they are all safe to remove, typical downloads by MS software.

Reminder: you should have said what was the folder you found that in.

[Deaf_Raiders]

Would it be save to remove MS Visual C++ I have never used it

[soldier1st]

Would it be save to remove MS Visual C++ I have never used it

You never knew which apps may need them so just keep em.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Seems like someone has been developing stuff on that pc :p