Unable to locate and open visual studio anywhere

Question

I installed Microsoft Visual Studio on my PC but can't find it at all anywhere. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling visual studio, but that didn't fix it. I tried launching it using the command prompt and nothing happened. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello @The Green Brick ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Are you using Visual Studio 2022?

Visual Studio 2022 is installed, by default, in this directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\<edition>\Common7\IDE.

There are several ways to open Visual Studio:

1. If you can’t find and start VS, you can directly run(double click) this file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\<edition>\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.

2. Visual Studio can also be launched from VS Installer(open Visual Studio Installer > click Launch).

3. Visual Studio can be launched from "Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio"(search in Windows Search box and open it) by running start devenv command.

4. You can also search "Visual Studio" in Windows Search box to launch Visual Studio.

5. VS Installer can be found by opening Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > find VS Installer > right-click it > Change

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Visual Studio, but that didn’t fix it. I tried launching it using the command prompt and nothing happened.

If you were unable to locate VS, how did you uninstall it? Looks like you can find it, but VS just fail to launch?

Is there any limitation on your machine, such as antivirus, permission limitation and group policy, which may block VS from launching(try to run VS as admin and see if this works)?

Besides, did you change any path, environment variables, system files or configuration files?

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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