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Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. These are required so that the executables of some programs will run, because they were compiled by their author using Microsoft Visual Studio (and a particular version of Visual Studio at that) and require Visual Studio's 'runtime' for C++ in order to run. Usually such runtimes are bundled with the software that requires them, but not always.
Microsoft maintains [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2019667 a list of the latest supported Visual C++ redistributables].
=Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable=