Comments on: Remove Optional and Probably Unnecessary Windows Vista Components

By: Mrs. C

Mrs. C — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:56:32 +0000

I am so thankful for this article!! I just wish that I had found it sooner! It was extremely helpful – and I appreciated the humor, too!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:46:04 +0000

What is the Silverlight program? Windows keeps trying to install it, but consistently fails. Web directions say to remove any old Silverlight programs that might be hanging around, but the thing is, I don’t have any!

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:49:16 +0000

I have a Toshiba laptop and after following all the above advice, my computer now says the config free is now disabled. Not sure what config free is, from what I can tell it isn’t something I need. Any idea which change caused this? Do I even want or need this program?

Thanks

Sandra

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:31:57 +0000

Fax ‘n’ Scan enables you to send and receive faxes, if you still have a dial up modem plugged into the wall.

Using a scanner is covered under WIA, or Windows Image Acquisition.

By: MikeUK

MikeUK — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:19:11 +0000

Re: Vista Home, and the constant bombardments of updates, my question is it possible to delete/uninstall some of the older updates, or would this have an effect on the running of Vista in other words is it worthit and is it safe to do so.

Regards.

Mike

By: Duckbrain

Duckbrain — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:45:06 +0000

Do not uninstall the .Net Framework! There is an increasing number of programs that NEED it. (I know, I program in it.) In fact, I recommend that you update the .Net Framework to make sure you don’t loose compatibility with programs.

By: bennyrussell

bennyrussell — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:12:10 +0000

Group Policy Preferences CSE? Apparently this one is new

By: Blah Blah Black Sheep

Blah Blah Black Sheep — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:49:25 +0000

What I’d really like to do, is remove things like Movie Maker, Calendar, and all the other built-in apps that I don’t want or use. They don’t give you the option for that in the enable/disable apps section. Likewise, there’s an option to “uninstall” IE, but all it does is remove shortcut & startup menus for it. When some programs try to access the web, they still pop up an IE window to do their thing, which is majorly annoying. But, IE is integrated with Windows. I wish they’d make Windows more modular.

By: madlhughes

madlhughes — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:03:18 +0000

Thnaks most were already off but now I’m worried about NET Framework 3.0 after reading above. Will I be able to put it back in again as easily as I have taken it out.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:06:17 +0000

“Used for the new .NET 3.0 components, but only really needed for programmers.” Really? Shows how much you know