They really don't take up a lot of space to being with.
The ones in the red box are duplicated on the screenshots. But if you add up all of that space required for them, it's a whopping 155 MB. NOT GB, but MB. Today's storage, even for very small SSDs for boot, it still, at minimum, 256 GB - roughly 1200 times the amount of space used by all these files. A 1 TB SSD would have 4800 times the space needed by those runtimes.
Furthermore, without getting very technical, they're files needed for apps to run - hence the name runtime in all of them. Different apps were created with different versions of Visual C++, and thus require different versions of the runtime installed. When you have them all installed, any app that needs any one of those will work after install because those runtime files are already there.
There is no need to install this AIO package, and you're certainly OK not installing it. Furthermore, if you enable Windows Update will update any of those already installed runtimes to the latest versions when updates are available, and most (but not all) applications will usually automatically download and install any missing runtime files, you're perfectly fine ignoring this package.
However, if your system already has runtimes installed now, uninstalling one or more of them could make some programs stop working. It's possible that one or more of them were installed by an application you later uninstalled, but you'd have to start looking around at all your applications and checking their websites or help pages to find out for sure. A lot of work for saving a few MB of space.
Now, as to your specific question - most likely it will not affect your system, though one of those (probably the 2022) may mess up parts of your system - like File Explorer, which does require one of those runtimes. Furthermore, If a Windows system app cannot fin its runtime, it will throw up an error box saying so. But, technically, yes, removing one of those could cause system instability. Removing all of them could as well. And since some program somewhere needed one or more of those at some time, might as well leave them there and not risk it.
As for the AIO package- that is entirely up to you. It's not necessary by any means. Just handy and helpful.
The ones in the red box are duplicated on the screenshots. But if you add up all of that space required for them, it's a whopping 155 MB. NOT GB, but MB. Today's storage, even for very small SSDs for boot, it still, at minimum, 256 GB - roughly 1200 times the amount of space used by all these files. A 1 TB SSD would have 4800 times the space needed by those runtimes.
Furthermore, without getting very technical, they're files needed for apps to run - hence the name runtime in all of them. Different apps were created with different versions of Visual C++, and thus require different versions of the runtime installed. When you have them all installed, any app that needs any one of those will work after install because those runtime files are already there.
There is no need to install this AIO package, and you're certainly OK not installing it. Furthermore, if you enable Windows Update will update any of those already installed runtimes to the latest versions when updates are available, and most (but not all) applications will usually automatically download and install any missing runtime files, you're perfectly fine ignoring this package.
However, if your system already has runtimes installed now, uninstalling one or more of them could make some programs stop working. It's possible that one or more of them were installed by an application you later uninstalled, but you'd have to start looking around at all your applications and checking their websites or help pages to find out for sure. A lot of work for saving a few MB of space.
Now, as to your specific question - most likely it will not affect your system, though one of those (probably the 2022) may mess up parts of your system - like File Explorer, which does require one of those runtimes. Furthermore, If a Windows system app cannot fin its runtime, it will throw up an error box saying so. But, technically, yes, removing one of those could cause system instability. Removing all of them could as well. And since some program somewhere needed one or more of those at some time, might as well leave them there and not risk it.
As for the AIO package- that is entirely up to you. It's not necessary by any means. Just handy and helpful.
My Computers
System One System Two
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- OS
- Windows 11 23H2 Current build
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- HomeBrew
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
- Motherboard
- MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE
- Memory
- 4 * 32 GB - Corsair Vengeance 3600 MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XC3 ULTRA GAMING (12G-P5-3955-KR)
- Sound Card
- Realtek® ALC1220 Codec
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2x Eve Spectrum ES07D03 4K Gaming Monitor (Matte) | Eve Spectrum ES07DC9 4K Gaming Monitor (Glossy)
- Screen Resolution
- 3x 3840 x 2160
- Hard Drives
- 3x Samsung 980 Pro NVMe PCIe 4 M.2 2 TB SSD (MZ-V8P2T0B/AM) } 3x Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 1 TB SSD (USB)
- PSU
- PC Power & Cooling’s Silencer Series 1050 Watt, 80 Plus Platinum
- Case
- Fractal Design Define 7 XL Dark ATX Full Tower Case
- Cooling
- Arctic Liquid Freezer III 420 RGB + Air 3x 140mm case fans (pull front) + 1x 120 mm (push back) and 1 x 120 mm (pull bottom)
- Keyboard
- SteelSeries Apex Pro Wired Gaming Keyboard
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master 3S | MX Master 3 for Business
- Internet Speed
- AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex Ftth
- Browser
- Nightly (default) + Firefox (stable), Chrome, Edge , Arc
- Antivirus
- Defender + MB 5 Beta
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- Operating System
- ChromeOS Flex Dev Channel (current)
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Latitude E5470
- CPU
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2501 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
- Motherboard
- Dell
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Graphics card(s)
- Intel(R) HD Graphics 520
- Sound Card
- Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 + RealTek Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell laptop display 15"
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 * 1080
- Hard Drives
- Toshiba 128GB M.2 22300 drive
INTEL Cherryville 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SATA III SSD
- PSU
- Dell
- Case
- Dell
- Cooling
- Dell
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master 3S (shared w. Sys 1) | Dell TouchPad
- Keyboard
- Dell
- Internet Speed
- AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex Ftth
