Installed Programs - which programs to uninstall?

Hi,
I am not tech savvy. I am here on advice from below link (Windows Community Forum) to post my Question here at MSDN forum. So, I am also not sure about the category and Forum I have chosen :-). Pl. guide me to the right Forum, if this is
wrong.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/installed-programs-confirm-uninstalable-programs/53aa2dec-9d2b-4cab-92d8-00657ce21cc8
I'll repeat my query here:
I find a lot of (about 16) Microsoft programs installed in my HP Windows 7 laptop. I need advice whether I need to keep all of them or if I could 'Uninstall' any of them. If they do not in any way affect my PC performance, or internet usage,
I don't mind keeping them. Here are the list of programs:
A. Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (4 Nos.)
B. Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable (6 Nos.)
C. Microsoft Visual Studio tools for Applications 2.0 (2 Nos.)
D. Microsoft_VC90_CRX_x86
E. Visual Studio 2008 x64 Redistributables
F. Visual Studio 2012 x64 Redistributables
G. Visual Studio 2012 x86 Redistributables
Pl. advice if any of the above may be beneficially Uninstalled. Thanks in advance.

As far as I know the redistributable packages are required to run applications created by Visual Studio.
I don't know how many companies in the world use Microsoft Visual Studio to create the applications they sell or some even provide free of charge but I would guess it's alot. I suspect Microsoft probably uses Visual Studio for that though.
Perhaps all of those were not originally installed on your computer. And I'm not app installing guru but I do use Visual Studio to program with in the Visual Basic language. If I decide to create an installer so I can give somebody a program to install on
their computer there are certain prerequisites the installer can detect to see if they exist on the computer the application will be installed on. One would be a version of .Net Framework compatable for whichever version of .Net Framework my application was
created under. I suppose others would be the particular redistributable that my program would need to run on the PC it is to be installed on.
If prerequisites are not found and the computer has an internet connection the installer can download and install, with the permission of whoever is installing my app on their computer, any prerequisites such as .Net Framework or one of those redistributables
so that my application can then be installed on the PC and will run (athough the PC may need to be rebooted prior to running the application).
So maybe alot of those are on your computer because programs you have placed on your computer installed those, which they can also do from their installation disk if the redistributables ISO is on the applications install disk.
If you delete any of those it's entirely possible various programs will no longer be able to run on your system.
FYI read this link to get an idea about those.
The Visual C++ Redistributable Packages install runtime components that are required to run C++ applications built with Visual Studio 2012.
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