if i deleted the file of visual studio manually how can i reinstall

Question

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am building an environment to run a Python 3.6 code, but my visual studio is in 2022. So I want to install Visual Studio 2017. Chatgpt told me after the uninstall tool I needed to delete the files named Visual Studio manually, I did that after using all uninstall.exe files. now I can not reinstall 2022 nor install 2017 because the redistributable still tells me another version is installed. What should I do now? I want to install the 2017 version.

Best regards

Answer 1

Hi @Minzhang Chen, 

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! 

Please uninstall all the Visual C++ Redistributable items in Programs and Features. Then, try to install the VS2017 again. 

If it doesn’t work, I suspect your VS is not uninstalled cleanly. You can try the following steps to do a clean uninstallation:

1. Manually delete any leftover install and cache folder you previously installed to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio

%programdata%\Microsoft\visualstudio\packages

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio

%temp% 

2. Delete the setup registry key, which was set when you first installed (Maybe there is only one key, please check one by one.):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup 

3. Download the VS2017 Community from https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_community.exe and run it as administrator. 

Sincerely,

Anna

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