C++

[Earl Partridge]

Windows Home...
In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
If so I can not find it.
I should probably just try to remove these?
Earl

 

[Joel]

Windows Home...
In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
If so I can not find it.
I should probably just try to remove these?

Is it just the redistributable? If so, it's probably required by
another program you installed.

 

[Char Jackson]

Windows Home...
In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
If so I can not find it.
I should probably just try to remove these?
Earl

It usually means you have the C++ runtime libraries installed, not the
entire C++ development platform. The libraries get installed by other
programs that depend on them. If you remove them, something else will
stop working. Just leave them.

 

[Earl Partridge]

Yes, one indicates Redistributable. So I leave them alone.
Earl\

 

[Roland Schweiger]

"Earl Partridge"

In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?
If so I can not find it.

It is most likely one of the redistribution runtime libraries.
Generally it is better to leave them as they are.

If you wand or need C++ (or C#) you can get a free version of Microsoft's
Visual Studio for example here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/express/default.aspx?wt.srch=1

Some elements of VisualStudio (e.g. the CSC.EXE compiler for c#) are
included in the .net framework directory of any Windows Version from Vista
Home upwards.

Again - the c++ installations you see in add/remove programs, are most
likely some runtime elements that don't harm anyone and it is better to not
touch them ...

greetings

Roland Schweiger

 

[Peter Foldes]

No

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Windows Home...
In the Remove/Uninstall window I see several listings for Visual C++.
Does this mean I have Visual C++ installed somewhere on my machine?

No, it does not. It means that another application installed runtime
re-distributable code.

If so I can not find it.

It's likely a set of DLL's.

I should probably just try to remove these?

Only if you want the program that installed and needs it to stop working.

HTH
-pk