Not sure what you did to "eliminate" the issue but in my experience this will generally mangle the system even worse than before. You don't need to uninstall VS 2022 or the installer to install VS 2019. The VS 2022 installer can install VS 2019, or at least get you there. If you cannot run the VS 2022 installer then you've mangled your system. Please post the actual error logs for the setup. There should be log files generated in the temp directory for this.
Without further information I would recommend you do the following:
- Download and run the VS 2022 installer from Microsoft. If it doesn't run then the installer is broken.
- Go to the Available tab and see if VS 2019 shows up.
- If it does then click it to install it. If that fails then the VS 2019 installation is messed up.
- If it doesn't show up then click the
Find more versions online
option, scroll down to All Downloads and then to Older Downloads. Select 2019 and download VS 2019 Pro. Run the setup program.
Note that if you use Community edition then VS 2019 Community is not available. Older Community editions are not "supported" and all links take you to the latest Community version. You have to have a VS Subscription in order to use older VS non-Community products.