.NET... What Is It?

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Earl Partridge

Windows XP Pro
I installed the latest MS Updates, one of which was .Net stuff.
After restarting, I discovered I have a new User on my machine.
One for this .Net thing.

That sort of freaks me out. I deleted that user.
 
if you do NOT do asp.net development work on your
machine, this is 1 of those updates u didnt need in 1st
place.

I've been tempted to uninstall NET but I think its
needed for installing MS or ATI apps. Since its small,
I've left it.

HTH-Larry

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:28:43 GMT, "Earl Partridge"

|Windows XP Pro
|I installed the latest MS Updates, one of which was .Net stuff.
|After restarting, I discovered I have a new User on my machine.
|One for this .Net thing.
|
|That sort of freaks me out. I deleted that user.
|

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.
 
There are quite a few major and minor programs now that depend upon .net,
and the list is growing.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Speaking of DotNet - the new Color Applet for Control Panel requires
it. Installing it, triggers a download/install of the 20+ Megabyte 1.1 ver
of DotNet. Seems like the installer should go ahead and install the new
2.0 version - maybe they (MS) haven't gotten around to changing the
installer ?
 
OK, I read your reference and will probably re-install it. I do some minor
programming stuff with ASP pages, MS Access, and rarely tinker with an
older version of Visual Basic. With this, I'm guessing your opinion would
be that I should keep .NET.
Thanks.
Earl
 
I read the info in your link and have re-installed .net via Windows Update.
It indicated Service Pack 2, however it did not create a new user.
Should it have?
Earl
 
In Administrative Tools I noticed that I had 4 Shortcuts pointing to .Net
Framework.
One to MS .Net Framework Configuration, one to MS .Net Framework Wizards
and and another set of two identical except indicating version 1.1.

The path to these were Windows\Microsoft.net\Framwork\V1.0.3705 and
the other path was Windows\Microsoft.net\Framework\V1.1.4322
Assuming the version 1.0 was not needed I deleted it (and the two
shortcuts).

So I get an auto update to install .net framework ver 1.0 SP3, which would
not
install until I Restored what I had deleted.

Do I really need both?
Earl
 
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