But you knew that would be the answer. For example some ATI video cards use .NET 2.0 or 4.0. You could remove .NET and see if anything goes wonky since it is easy enough to reinstall.
Bob
I do not do any programming at all but have .net framework on my computer. Could I delete this without any problems occurring?

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