Not really a big deal but it is annoying, I like to keep C:\ as clean as possible - and I can already hear users asking what the files are. The (2010 versions) are the ''ones'' that I thought were (outdated), for uninstalling.
Reply: I still have microsoft visual c++ updates on my (pc) from 2011. If you don’t use visual c++, you can remove it.
Haven't bothered digging too deep into the MSI, but does anyone else have any experience of this - did you just live with it? This package installs runtime components of C Runtime (CRT), Standard C++, ATL, MFC, OpenMP and MSDIA libraries. EXE based install and Z:\Path To\Source MSI\ for the. Registry InstallSource is value is C:\12e9a90d3037a845a91002 for an. A baseline image is provided for these redistributable packages so that it is no longer necessary to install different versions separately on target systems. As usual a classy installer from MS.ĭeleting the files post install is OK but if the app is then repaired via control panel they are restored again. Microsoft changed the system significantly with the release of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 20. This has been packaged up (vcredist_x86.exe downloaded, MSI extracted and MST created etc) however when it installs it seems to leave an admin install to C:\ - or D:\ etc if that has more free disk space - and the following is left behind after a sucessful install: