[chunkyks]

There was a looong period of time where a lot of developers felt entirely free to drop whatever they wanted into c:\Windows, System, System32, whatever. It's a big part of what led to windows getting a reputation for being poorly behaved/crashy/slow over time [leading to a lot of "have you tried reinstalling windows?" recommendations]

[Dylan16807]

Yes but I think that's separate from a newer installer using one of these newer runtimes.