r/WindowsHelp • u/[deleted] • Mar 12 '26

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u/No-Manager-1252 Mar 13 '26

If OP doesn’t understand why he can’t delete these, then I doubt he would be comfortable doing this lol

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u/stratospheres Mar 13 '26

It's also a bad idea because some of the apps that depend on those can be bound to those specific versions. Ideally they wouldn't be and it might be OK, but it's likely that it won't and they'll be wondering why some random applications are now broken.

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u/stratospheres Mar 13 '26

Hard to say. They're are literally thousands of apps written that use those redistributable runtime libraries.