Right Forum for Visual C++ App.??

Ok, so I did a Search here, and then thought (!?!) to "look it up" at Microsoft (which upon doing, realized I had done that before), to little (or no) avail - sooooo ...

In "grc123" ("SIMPLE") terms, please, can anyone tell me the likelihood that "we" might need this ("Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable") - anytime soon? It takes up 5 ("5.21") MB's of space - that could be used (or NOT) otherwise.

We're not into the 'latest/greatest video games', we're not (at this point - hah!) doing any "developing" or such ... this is my folks PC (they're in their late 60's - pretty much just email and some surfing), a six year-old Dell, w/XP, and a rather smallish (?) hard drive - "20GB".

Thanks much in advance!

g ....

 

If you aren't developing programs or debugging them, I see no reason to have this product.

 

Sweet - thank you! Though I "would like" try to do some of those things (and hopefully in the not-too-distant future, may be able to learn a bit), the reality is ahhhhh - no, I am not doing them and it probably wouldn't much be on this PC if/when I did/do.

Thanks again!
g ...

 

Hmmm (?) ... I bet there's a whole buncha' ("MS") "stuff" I could unload from this PC to free-up space - starting with "Word" (and it's 101MB's!) - especially now that I seem to be successfully using things such as "Google Doc's", huh?

 

If Google Docs handles all your Word document needs, then I agree Word could go.
A brief word of caution though, many people email .doc files as attachments.
If you axe Word and Google ever stops allowing you access (for whatever reason - MS might sue them? - You never know), to reinstall Word is not cheap.

 

wow - lots to consider (as per so often it seems) ... thanks.

As I still have the original Dell & MS install disks (Back-Up - correct?) that we're provided by Dell six years ago (though the machine was delivered 'factory pre-loaded/ software pre-installed'), I should be able to re-install Word if ever I need - correct? Aside from Updates, which I could get from MS - right - or no?

Thanks again,
g ...
PS - come to think of it, as this PC seems to have "lost" ?!?) WordPAD (which seems to me to be a pretty happy medium between Word & Notepad?), shouldn't I be able to find that on one of the original install disks? Thanks again ...