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How to get rid of HoloLens? It messes up VS and Unreal Engine

Oleksiy F 6 Reputation points
2022-12-19T20:42:03.707+00:00

Good day, I have a rather big issue that I have little idea about how to resolve.
At my work computer that I'm not the first user of I installed Visual Studio, as well as Unreal Engine. Problem is - Unreal Engine builds with support for HoloLens because it detects its SDK and there's build target platform for it in Visual Studio together with x64 and x86 - and it causes Unreal's editor to crash exactly because of HoloLens while built for either Windows architectures (UE crash logs list issues exactly with HoloLens).
At my home computer I, of course, don't have HoloLens target and everything compiles and works fine.
I want to get rid of HoloLens SDK/installation but the problem is - nothing related to it is in "Apps", not even Windows Mixed Reality. So it probably was a botched uninstall of it before my time. Resetting Windows is not an option.
So how do I get rid of it?

Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Debugging
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  1. Zuocheng Wang - MSFT 3,091 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
    2022-12-20T09:56:28.263+00:00

    Hello, Welcome to Microsoft Q&A,

    If you are using the Editor, you can uncheck HoloLens 2 in Unreal Engine's Options->Target Platforms, as shown below. If you are using source code to build Unreal Engine, please ask for support from Unreal.
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