Though you can try to remove the oldest versions of redistributables installed on your PC and check how it goes – but then again it would require a load of checking and so it is better to let them be. And Don’t try to uninstall these packages most of them would have come with the programs installed on your PC and deleting them may crash the program or game. You can view the list of installed redistributables on your Windows machine by opening the Programs and Features control panel. These Visual C++ redistributable and runtime packages are mostly installed for standard libraries that many applications use.
These packages are often installed independently of applications, allowing multiple applications to make use of the package while only having to install it once.
Many applications require redistributable Visual C++ packages to function correctly. It features tools for developing and debugging C++ code, especially code written for Windows API, DirectX, and. MSVC is proprietary software it was originally a standalone product but later became a part of Visual Studio and made available in both trialware and freeware forms. Microsoft Visual C++ (often abbreviated to MSVC) is an integrated development environment (IDE) product from Microsoft for the C, C++, and C++/CLI programming languages. A redistributable package (or a “redistributable”) is a library of components required to run certain Windows applications developed with Microsoft Visual C++.
