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can I delete C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions now that I've moved to VS2017?

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Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:17 PM | 3 votes

I un-installed VS2015 and used the /uninstall /force options on Win7-64. 

I'm now using VS 2015.

VS2015 left 2GB in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions.

Can I just delete this folder?

Is there a better way, so that any registry entries can get deleted?

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Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:36 AM âś…Answered | 2 votes

Hi,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

Yes, you could delete C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions.

Besides, you could also delete the following folders:

  • C:\users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0
  • C:\users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0
  • C:\users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon\14.0

Go to the registry editor (start >> run >> regedit) and remove the following registries(it just has a small memory, you could ignore these)

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0_Config

Best regards,

Joyce

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