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Got this warning in Belarc:
“EOL-Microsoft End of Life Microsoft .NET Core 5.0 is vulnerable and no security updates are provided by the vendor.
Found this tool :
.NET Uninstall Tool command line. Require installation.
Couldn’t find portable free 3rd party .Net uninstall app.
I have .NET Runtime Core v5.0.17 installed (i.e., not the entire SDK for software developers), and unlike my .NET Frameworks, my .NET Core Runtime v5.0.17 is listed at Control Panel | Programs | Programs and Features. Is there any reason why the I couldn’t simply uninstall it from the Control Panel, or does the .NET Uninstall Tool do a cleaner uninstall? As a general rule I normally uninstall any software listed in Programs and Features using the portable edition of Revo Uninstaller Free just to clean up any orphaned files or registry entries that might be left behind by the “native” uninstaller.
If you have a Dell computer note that the latest SupportAssist v3.11.4.29 (rel. 23-Jun-2022) now requires “Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 and .NET Core Runtime v5.0.14” per the minimum system requirements posted <here>. This is the first release of SupportAssist to require a .NET Core Runtime and I have no idea why Dell would release software in June 2022 that requires a .NET Core Runtime v5.0.x that reached end of support on 10-May-2022. My understanding is that the “classic” .NET Framework 4.5 and later versions (for Windows PCs only) are backward-compatible with apps that were built with earlier versions of the .NET Framework, but that newer .NET Core Runtimes (multi-platform for Windows, macOS, Linux, etc.) are not backward-compatible. That means if Dell users want to use SupportAssist v3.11.4.29 to run update checks for Dell software and drivers or run Dell hardware diagnostics then they must leave the unsupported .NET Core Runtime v5.0.17 installed on their system – replacing the .NET Core Runtime v5.x with a newer .NET Core Runtime v6.x or v7.x doesn’t work.
In theory, if you uninstall .NET Core Runtime v5.0.17 and have software on your system that requires .NET Runtime v5.0.17 you should be prompted to re-install .NET Runtime v5.0.17 the next time you launch that software. In practice, I’m not sure how well that actually works. There are several users reporting in Dell’s SupportAssist for PCs forum board that the new SupportAssist v3.11.4.29 installer simply throws a generic “Installation failed. Try again later…” message. A few users discovered that their SupportAssist installation log included “Dell.SupportAssist.Client.SupportAssistInstaller.MainWindow – Unexpeceted Error Occured during Asp Or Dot Net Core Installation“, and after they manually downloaded and installed .NET Core Runtime v.5.x from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet they found the latest SupportAssist v3.11.4.29 installer ran to completion. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that those SupportAssist installation errors are mainly due to sloppy programming by Dell.
Just an aside that I’m not a fan of SupportAssist (it’s buggy and hogs too many system resources) and my Dell SupportAssist service is disabled so this program won’t launch at boot-up. I use Dell Update v4.x to check for Dell software and driver updates.
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Dell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v21H2 build 19044.1766 * Dell SupportAssist v3.11.4.29 * Dell Update for Windows Universal v4.5.0 * Revo Uninstaller Free Portable v2.3.9 * ASoft .NET Version Detector v21R
Alex, can you send me a link to what you installed as your replacement for .Net Core 5.0.x.
I updated to .NET 6.x. Currently .NET 6.0.7 desktop runtime.
You don’t need to install/update .NET if you don’t have apps using it/compatible with the new version.
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