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.
Used this tool to remove all components of VS2015 Community, got zero exit codes for every uninstall. After that I retried to verify everything is clear and got this:
The following bundles were detected on your system:
(Name: Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3022398), Version: 14.0.25420, BundleId: 7a68448b-9cf2-4049-bd73-5875f1aa7ba2)
(Name: Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 with Updates, Version: 14.0.25420.1, BundleId: 79b486b9-c5f0-4096-a00c-8351f59587c2)
Bundle: Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 with Updates has been uninstalled with exit code: -1.
Uninstalling: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache{7a68448b-9cf2-4049-bd73-5875f1aa7ba2}\vsupdate_KB3022398.exe
Bundle: Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3022398) has been uninstalled with exit code: 0.
Normal Visual Studio Uninstall completed.
Searching for stale MSIs and clean up stale MSIs.
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
So there are still traces of VS, is this normal behaviour?
Used this tool to remove all components of VS2015 Community, got zero exit codes for every uninstall. After that I retried to verify everything is clear and got this: The following bundles were detected on your system: (Name: Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3022398), Version: 14.0.25420, BundleId: 7a68448b-9cf2-4049-bd73-5875f1aa7ba2) (Name: Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 with Updates, Version: 14.0.25420.1, BundleId: 79b486b9-c5f0-4096-a00c-8351f59587c2) Bundle: Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 with Updates has been uninstalled with exit code: -1. Uninstalling: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache{7a68448b-9cf2-4049-bd73-5875f1aa7ba2}\vsupdate_KB3022398.exe Bundle: Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3022398) has been uninstalled with exit code: 0. Normal Visual Studio Uninstall completed. Searching for stale MSIs and clean up stale MSIs. 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
So there are still traces of VS, is this normal behaviour?