Hi,
> Why do I have to install ALL these packages?
Because they are not installed by default on Windows by Microsoft when they should be.
> My computer crashed an now I have to go through this whole process again.
Disk image backups and clones have been around for a very long time.
> Why aren't they included in the doenload from SourceForge?????
Because they change often and I won't rebuild the installers every time Microsoft changes a version of the VC++ redistributables.
And I don't have to justify my choices; if you don't like it, you can go elsewhere and see if the grass is greener.
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