Uninstall old net frameworks

I've just installed the 3. NET Framework and while doing some cleaning I've notice that I have a lot of older versions installed 1. I wonder if I can safely dispose of all of them or these are needed in case I run a lower version. This is a duplicate of Safe to uninstall. NET Framework 2.

In addition, Versions 3. Imho, you can remove. NET 1. NET 2. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow.

Learn more. Is it safe to remove previous versions of the. NET Framework 2. NET Framework is installed as an operating system component. After the. NET Framework is removed, restart the computer. Try to install. If anything in my post is unclear or you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to let us know. It is our pleasure to be of assistance. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback.

This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 2. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Sharief K. Hi A ayan , Thank you for the post. To help you suggest more steps to resolve the issue, I would appreciate it if you could answer the following questions: 1. Method 1: Try updating the. That said, newer versions of. NET framework are most likely not backwards compatible with older versions of.

NET framework version 1. The author of the program did not know that the latest version of. NET framework version existed currently version 4. NET framework version 1 was the only version available at the time. As such, this program specifically requests.

NET framework version 1 during install on my system. Therefore, this particular program won't work with. If you insist on only using the newest. NET framework for whatever reason that may be , you will have to figure out which programs use the old.

NET framework to function. Unfortunately there's no easy way to know which programs require which. NET that I know of , though there may be some freeware program available that can provide this sort of detective work. If you uninstall a. NET framework and then launch a program that happens to require the. NET you just uninstalled, you will most likely receive a Windows error message stating that some sort of.

DLL file is missing and that the program can't launch. If you type in the. DLL error message into Google example: "somefile. After clicking on a few pages, I'm sure you'll come across one that will tell you that you are missing. NET framework required to run the program. In that case, you can simply uninstall the broken program with a replacement.