Which of these Microsoft Ho's can I uninstall?

alexjholland

alexjholland

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Hello. I paid a quick visit to windowsupdate to celebrate wiping my harddrive by opening my system's sexy legs to more microsoft infiltration.

She is now bearing ugly children and lots of flab that need slashing from her, but being no computer surgeon I'm not sure what's best to amputate.

Bearing in mind this is a music production laptop, that also has microsoft office, adobe photoshop, and one-two games max (currently Company of Hero's and Fahrenheit, and occassionally an FPS), which of these do I need, and what do they do?

Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 Hotfix
Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0
Microsoft Compression Client pack 1.0 for windows XP
Microsoft User-Mode Driver Framework Feature Pack 1.0
MXSML 4.0 SP2 (KB927978)
MXSML 4.0 SP2 Parser and SDK
Windows Installer 3.1

How badly do I need Intellipoint, do I lose any functionality or options from deleting it and does it eat much CPU?

Some help here would really be appreciated, I need to hack down the CPU and space being used here - and for now and future reference understanding these programs roles would really help me.

Thanks, Alex
 
alexjholland said:
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 Hotfix
Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0
Microsoft Compression Client pack 1.0 for windows XP
Microsoft User-Mode Driver Framework Feature Pack 1.0
MXSML 4.0 SP2 (KB927978)
MXSML 4.0 SP2 Parser and SDK
Windows Installer 3.1
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.Net framework is an API for .Net programmes (simply), you can uninstall it if you want. A few programmes wont work without it. Same goes with MSXML. Never head of "Microsoft Compression Client pack"...
They are mostly for developers.

Windows Installer 3.1 is one you need....
 
.NET may be worth keeping, because more apps do seem to be using it (albeit it often small ones, nothing large/commercial). The ATi drivers use it too, if you have an ATi graphics card, although you can use the CP drivers to get around that.
 
it wont do you any harm not having it all and it wont do you any harm having it all either.


toss a coin :)


you do need windows installer as above poster said.
 
Ahh thats lucky I'd just replaced my ATI drivers for the Omega Drivers a day or so ago anyway.. I'll take it as it goes, if I have a program that needs them I'm sure it will find a nice way of letting me know.. However a couple more things..

Any ideas on what Microsoft Compression Client pack 1.0 is?

and a new one - Microsoft User-Mode driver framework feature pack 1.0

Would like to clean these out if possible, or at least understand them

Thanks!
 
I have absolutley no idea why you'd want to get rid of any of those. You'll find negledgable benefit and why get rid of .Net suuport? A lot of apps and sites just won't work without it, same for the XML service. You won't be able to install some apps without the Windows installer service.

Seriously, what is the point?

Burnsy
 
I've found a lot of programs use .netframwork. Generally its the smaller companies who make little known programs like video convertors etc...
 
wormvortex said:
I've found a lot of programs use .netframwork. Generally its the smaller companies who make little known programs like video convertors etc...
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I wouldn't say it was generally the smaller comapnies, it all depends wht you want to achieve and what the .Net API can provide.

Burnsy
 
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