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visual-studiovisual-studio-2012windows-7installationuninstallation
vexe
vexe

Reputation: 5615

Unable to uninstall visual studio 2012 - Getting an exception thrown?

I'm trying to uninstall VS2012 to install VS2013 - But before I uninstall it from the control panel, I went ahead and removed other seemingly unrelated components that I never use. Mainly, I removed all the SQL-related stuff, all the ASP.NET stuff, F# runtime, Async SKD and some more stuff - I never use those. Plus everytime I uninstall VS those components remain, annoying... After I did that, and tried to uninstall VS12 Ultimate - I got an exception!

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I clicked on details, and got:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   VSSetup
  P1:   vs_ultimate
  P2:   11.0.50727.01
  P3:   11.0.50727
  P4:   Uninstall
  P5:   unknown
  P6:   Crash: Exception
  P7:   5174ddfb
  P8:   2bf
  P9:   25
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Locale ID:    1033

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I tried a lot of ways, other uninstallers (they all run the same uninstaller and thus I get the same crash) - I tried booting up the installation medium, running it from cmd with the args /uninstall /force - No dice...

How should I uninstall it now?

PS: Running Windows 7 X64 Ultimate

Thanks for any help.

EDIT: MS Crosslink

EDIT: Now I removed literally everything VS-related - And cleaned the registry - it's not even there in the control panel anymore - Still can't install VS2013...

EDIT: I installed VS10 - Just to see if it was really those components that I removed that are causing the problem - It didn't help.

EDIT: Someone mentioned that updating your graphics card and disabling the wpf graphics hardware acceleration might help - Since the splash screen is implemented in wpf - The settings are said to be in HKCU/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Avalon.Graphics/DisableHWAcceleration But I didn't find that key - I created it with no avail... - I also just updated my graphics card, no dice...

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1664

Answers (3)

user4372843
user4372843

Reputation: 1

Try to restore your system to a earlier point of time where the visual studio was installed or if you want to install VS 2013 then update it to 2013 which was directly available from the Microsoft website and there is no need of uninstalling the VS 2012

Upvotes: 0

vexe
vexe

Reputation: 5615

Thanks for anyone who tried to help. Unfortunately I ended up formatting, as none of the solutions I tried really worked. M$, I sincerely hate you! - Lesson learned I guess, don't F with M$, it doesn't F with you.

Upvotes: 1

09stephenb
09stephenb

Reputation: 9836

Try doing it by hand

go to my computer and click on C then click on program files and find the name of the program you want to install in your case virtual basic and then delete the folder if it isn't there it will be in one of the folders in there. then delete the folder next time you try to un-install it you will get a error just press ok and it will be done.

Upvotes: 0

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