visual studio installer installation/reinstallation problem

Question

hello:

   recently I install a visual studio 2022 preview, but later i find that i have installed it on default drive c:

and i want to uninstall and reinstall, this time i install, I find the visual studio installer do not run and go to the installation page, then i manually try to uninstall the previously installed version, i directly deleted the visual studio folder, trying to install again, the installer still do not startup, i download the software called windows install cleanup, clean the remnants, i tried to install the visual studio or reinstall visual studio installer, still does not work, could anyone tell me how to reinstall windows 10. thanks

Answer 1

Hello @wong david ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

This document: Reinstall Windows shows detailed steps for reinstalling Windows 10, please check it.

Besides, here are the steps for removing Visual Studio manually(except using InstallCleanup.exe tool):

1. Remove/Rename following folders. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio %programdata%\Microsoft\visualstudio\packages
2. Back up and remove following Registry keys if they exist. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup
3. Clean other VS cache by removing/renaming ComponentModelCache folder in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_xxxxxxxx folder, removing/renaming %temp% folder(you may need to reboot your machine before renaming %temp% folder).

BTW, as a tip, installing everything of VS on another drive(not C drive) is not possible, see this ticket: Install everything of VS on another drive. For changing the installation location of VS, see this document: Select the installation location

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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