Andy Champ wrote:
Adrian C wrote:

For example, I've got graphics drivers (ATI) which use it. Remove
.NET, and then it's a very involved mess to recover from.


I'll be shocked if the drivers use it. The pretty GUI that lets you
fiddle with the settings is a much more likely candidate.


Yes, it's for the pretty GUI. Whether the driver package remains stable
after yanking out .NET that supports the GUI, given ATI's known history
of writing good graphics driver packages (not!) is still something I
wouldn't like to recommend as a casual experiment.

Remove the ATI drivers. Remove .NET and maybe Microsoft has some generic
ATI accelerated drivers that might suffice.

Or glorious VGA 16-color mode ;-)

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Adrian C