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Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:02 AM

Hi,

while i open VS2013 I am getting this error - cannot find one or more components.Please reinstall the application.

It is killing my time to uninstall and reinstall.

After reinstall it is working fine 10 days.then again starting this same issue.

I have checked permission full control access as well local admin.even though i am getting error.

Please let me know the solution.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2015 7:55 AM ✅Answered

Hi Jio333,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum

Firstly, please try a repair on your install. Go to Add/Remove programs or the Programs control panel and click Repair for Visual Studio 2013.

Secondly, I suspected that the cause of the issue may due to some inappropriate operations about your computer. In order to help you solve the problem, there are several things I would like to clarify with you:

During the 10 days (before the issue happened), do you remember the following:

  1. Have you installed any software at that time?
  2. Have you installed any Visual Studio extension?
  3. Have you changed any setting of your OS?

Please take a look at the event logs in the Event Viewer and find out error applications***. Try to search for the time and the devenv application***, it may contains some error info about your Visual Studio.

Pay attention to error applications.

In this case, I suspected that some IDE packages are missing or corrupted during the VS using time and caused the issue.

You may try some devenv switches in command prompt:

a.Run devenv /Resetsettings to eliminate the cause of corrupted settings.

b.Run devenv /Safemode to see if you can apply it correctly. This can eliminate the possibility that third party Add-ins or packages are causing problems.

Please run devenv /log to generate the ActivityLog.xml file(The log can show us which package failed to load) in the %temp% folder, then upload it to OneDrive.

Reference about devenv/log command is below:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241272.aspx

Best Regards,

Wen Xu

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:09 AM

Hi,

Please find some related thread that will help you to solve your issue,

How to fix visual studio error “cannot find one or more components .Please re-install the application” in windows 8.1?

Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application - while running Visual Studio Express 2013 for Desktop

Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall application

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