microsoft visual c files

[pittapat]

hi there. have been a member for a long time, but have never really used the forum. our computer has started taking ages to open programs an pages, so I went into control panel to see what i could uninstall.......i have found a heap of files in there called microsoft visual c ++ (11 in total) 3 x 2005, 6 x 2008 & 2 x 2010 and there sizes are massive compared to everything else. Can you tell me if I should uninstall any of them or not?? I am running Windows 7. thanks in advance

[caperjack]

No, there is a reason they are installed ,and this link will explain it better than I ,hope this helps