Thinking of uninstalling .Net Framework

[Sean McCloskey]

I have the following applications installed:

Microsoft .Net Framework (English) v.1.0.3705
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.0 Hotfix (KB886906)
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 Hotfix (KB886903)
Microsoft Visual C# .Net Standard - English

I had taken an interest in learning to program as a hobby a couple of
years ago and installed all of this stuff. Now my hard drive is nearly
full and these programs take up 1.375 GB each. I don't know what kind
of problems uninstalling some or all of them might cause, so any advice
would be appreciated. Would one option be to just uninstall just the
1.0 version and Hotfix?

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I have the following applications installed:

Microsoft .Net Framework (English) v.1.0.3705
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.0 Hotfix (KB886906)
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 Hotfix (KB886903)
Microsoft Visual C# .Net Standard - English

I had taken an interest in learning to program as a hobby a couple of
years ago and installed all of this stuff. Now my hard drive is nearly
full and these programs take up 1.375 GB each. I don't know what kind
of problems uninstalling some or all of them might cause, so any advice
would be appreciated. Would one option be to just uninstall just the
1.0 version and Hotfix?

I very much doubt that they *each* take up 1.375GB. VC# quite possible
does, so I'd suggest just uninstalling that - the framework itself is
relatively small by comparison.

 

[Sean McCloskey]

Thanks for the quick response. It's good to know that the framework
doesn't take up as much space, but do you happen to know why on "Add or
Remove Programs", they would each show up as 1,375 MB? Are they all
somehow linked so that I can't uninstall one without uninstalling all?

 

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Sean,

Most of the files that make up .Net Framework is located in

%windir%\Microsoft.Net\Framework

Each version will have its own subdirectory there, typically called v1.0.3705 and/or v1.1.4322, in my case v1.0 was 37Mb and v1.1 74Mb.

 

[Lloyd Dupont]

it's probably the SDK taking that much space.
the runtime, however, takes "only" about 70MB.

 

[Jon Davis]

When Visual Studio components are installed, their net sum gets reported on
each component's file size in Add / Remove Programs. I consider it a design
flaw but apparently Microsoft did it this way for some [bogus] reason.

Jon