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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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MSVC 2017 RC Uninstall/Reinstall Cruft #66

Closed mmoo9154 closed 7 years ago

mmoo9154 commented 7 years ago

I tried to install MSVC 2017 RC on a clean Win10 Home x64 (v10.0.14393). It failed because of network issues.

I uninstalled MSVC, but it left many, many subordinate pieces on my system.

I then hand deleted everything, and then deleted the C:\Program Files (x86)\MicrosoftVisualStudio folder.

When I tried to re-install MSVC 2017 RC using vs_Community.exe[1], it failed completely with a JSON deserialization error:

Unterminated string. Expected delimiter: ". Path 'packages[505].id', line 1, position 69223

Does anyone have any idea how I can clean up my inconsistent system so that Visual Studio can get through an install?

I've attached vslogs.zip as well.

[1] MD5 Sum: 8fd207f97b559c4dd34cc835b67f15cd

heaths commented 7 years ago

Please use the Visual Studio Feedback tool available on the Installer. This will collect logs and other pertinent information to investigate further.

This tool is for VS2015.