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.
I needed to go back to VS2015 Update 1 to compile some project. But, every time I try to uninstall the program, vs_professional.exe is still left in Package Cache folder with the following command line information.
Uninstalling: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache{5a3c06b2-3f5d-4172-aafc-6ab41b004649}\vs_professional.exe
Bundle: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2015 has been uninstalled with exit code: -2147187133.
Normal Visual Studio Uninstall completed.
Searching for stale MSIs and clean up stale MSIs.
Deleting: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudioSecondaryInstaller
Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0
Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0
Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config
Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0_Config
Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_Config
Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\12.0
Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\14.0
Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\15.0
I needed to go back to VS2015 Update 1 to compile some project. But, every time I try to uninstall the program, vs_professional.exe is still left in Package Cache folder with the following command line information.
Uninstalling: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache{5a3c06b2-3f5d-4172-aafc-6ab41b004649}\vs_professional.exe Bundle: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2015 has been uninstalled with exit code: -2147187133. Normal Visual Studio Uninstall completed. Searching for stale MSIs and clean up stale MSIs. Deleting: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudioSecondaryInstaller Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0 Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0 Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0 Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0_Config Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_Config Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\12.0 Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\14.0 Deleting registry: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\vs\Servicing\15.0
How can I address this problem?