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Visual Studio Uninstallation sometimes can be unreliable and often leave out a lot of unwanted artifacts. Visual Studio Uninstaller is designed to thoroughly and reliably remove these unwanted artifacts.
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Does not remove all traces. #39

Open StrikerMan780 opened 8 years ago

StrikerMan780 commented 8 years ago

I had a royally screwed up Visual Studio 2015 installation, so I tried to repair... didn't work... so I tried to uninstall, and it botched it severely, made things even worse than before, and the VSIX installer is missing from my machine, so a lot of things are royally screwed and I cannot reinstall now. (errors out the ass)

I want to be able to flush all existence of VS2015 from both my disk and registry, but this isn't achieving this, because whenever I try to install again, it still complains about the missing VSix installer and all kinds of other crap.

Trying to flush then fix the latest version of VS2015 Community Edition as of this date.

StrikerMan780 commented 8 years ago

I had to manually delete all registry entries referring to Visual Studio 14, and all those relating to the VSIX installer before I could get it working again. TotalUninstaller should delete these keys too, but it doesn't.

tobyhu87 commented 8 years ago

Thanks for letting us know. Which registry keys did you delete?

thanks toby.

StrikerMan780 commented 8 years ago

I just did a search for "Visual Studio 14" and "VSIX" in a registry editor. Also, turns out VS2015 is still not working and still not installing properly despite deleting them. Spoke too soon.

VS2015 is royally broken right now, has been ever since I got an update that completely murdered it.

This tool should completely flush all known traces of Visual Studio. Completely and utterly. Any configurations, any reg keys, everything. Otherwise this tool is essentially useless.

StrikerMan780 commented 8 years ago

I have an install log of VS2015 where the installation failed after trying to flush everything.

Maybe it'll help: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u80rept3usxvlsw/VSLog.txt?dl=0

StrikerMan780 commented 8 years ago

Also: Error

StrikerMan780 commented 8 years ago

Well, I seem to have fixed my own problem, for now.

I had to use TotalUninstaller first, then delete the PackageCache files, delete the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio and C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio folders, then search for all instances of "VSIX", "Visual Studio 14" and delete the HKLM/Software/Micosoft/VisualStudip/14.0 keys... clear my %temp% folder, and then finally install from an ISO of Visual Studio 2015 community update 2.

tobyhu87 commented 8 years ago

Thank you for letting us know.

I will take a look at these registry keys and see if it makes sense for Uninstaller to delete these registry keys as well.

thanks toby.