Does Windows keep list of dependencies for installed programs and framework

Question

I did a major cleanup on my Windows lately, removing old software which saw little use. Some of them may or may have not installed their own Visual C++ redistribution. I know removing the redists doesn't seem to make sense, but just in case I still want to remove it, is there a way to check for which program depends on certain redist?

Answer 1

Windows does not, there is the expectation that applications clean up after themselves. Unfortunatly this is not the typical action for installataions.