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Posted by Lawson on July 4th, 2008


Is it necessary to have Microsoft .NET framwork 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0? It seems
a little redundant to me. Can the older versions be removed safely without
any performance issues? Just wondering.

Posted by JS on July 4th, 2008


No it doesn't work that way.

If you have an application that uses/needs .NET 1.1 then 2.0 and 3.0 are not
to be considered supersets of 1.x
So if you where to delete 1.1 then there is a good chance the application
will fail.

Each version of .NET is usually installed along with the application that
requires it, so if you have all three versions then chances are that
somewhere along the way you installed at a minimum 3 applications, with each
of those 3 applications requiring it's own version of .NET

JS

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Posted by Ken Blake, MVP on July 4th, 2008


On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:44:01 -0700, Lawson
<Lawson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:


No. Some programs requiring the .net framework require specific
versions. It's best to keep them all. Besides, they use a tiny amount
of disk space.


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Posted by Jerry on July 4th, 2008


Not only must you keep the versions you mentioned, for the reasons given
above, you seem to be missing .NET Framework 3.5 - so go get it.

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