microsoft / VisualStudioUninstaller

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.
www.visualstudio.com
Other
3.92k stars 576 forks source link

Some registry keys left behind after running this tool #84

Open ewanharris opened 7 years ago

ewanharris commented 7 years ago

Hey, firstly thanks for the tool!

Here's what I did

Specifically the main key that is causing a problem is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0, I use this key to detect Windows 10 SDKs in some tooling.

I guess my questions are

  1. Is it expected for this tooling to remove that key?
  2. Do you know of a better (more reliable) way to detect Windows 10 SDKs on the system? I took a look through and maybe I should be using Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Kits\?