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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 3:56 AM | 1 vote
Hello;
I have uninstalled VisualStudio 2010 today (manually), and was left with two leftover entries in the "Add/Remove Programs" menu. One is "VS2010 SP1", and the other is "VS2010 Tools for Office Runtime (x64)": http://i.imgur.com/ri4ZW.png
I have not been able to remove them.
When I run the uninstaller for SP1, I get this message: http://i.imgur.com/hfS80.png ("This computer does not meet the requirements to install this software.")
When I try to run the uninstaller for "Tools for Office Runtime", it tries to reinstall, with no option to uninstall: http://i.imgur.com/WbojE.png
I have tried the VS2010 Uninstallation utility, in both default and /full modes, with no results. Any suggestions on getting rid of these two applications?
All replies (11)
Monday, December 17, 2012 6:21 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote
The "Remove" option for Visual Studio SP1 was never offered. After more futile attempts to repair the installation, I ended up having to reinstall Windows entirely. Thank you for trying to help though.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 3:17 PM ✅Answered | 4 votes
This command can be run from the VS2010 SP1 "SetupCache" folder as well.
C:\ProgramData\VS\vs10sp1\SetupCache>setup /uninstall
It seemed to run successfully, but the SP1 entry in "Uninstall or change programs" still remains.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:04 AM
I think there might be an option to solve this.
Install the VS 2010 again.
And with VS 2010 installed, uninstall the VS 2010 SP1 and Tools for Office Runtime.
After this, uninstall the VS 2010 itself.
Thanks,
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:19 PM
I re-installed VisualStudio, same one I had before.
When I tried to uninstall VS2010 SP1, it proceeded to install SP1 again instead. I let it finish: http://i.imgur.com/kX6v5.png http://i.imgur.com/686hQ.png http://i.imgur.com/2PHHd.png http://i.imgur.com/FN2qg.png
THEN when I again tried to uninstall VS2010 SP1, it tried to reinstall again. Now it never gives the uninstall option, it only tried to re-install itself: http://i.imgur.com/oCBQM.png http://i.imgur.com/cALly.png http://i.imgur.com/RxoX4.png
As for "Tools for Office Runtime", I can run the uninstaller, but the entry stays in "Add/Remove Programs": http://i.imgur.com/mCG6r.png http://i.imgur.com/XE9hY.png http://i.imgur.com/Eikkw.png
If I try to run the "Tools for Office Runtime" uninstaller again, it tried to reinstall: http://i.imgur.com/UsNZK.png
So, to summarize, installing VS2010 again has not solved either of the two problems.
P.S. Sorry I can't link to images directly, forum won't let me.
Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:19 AM
Hi Matvei,
As I know, Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is designed as a separate package because it improves the experience when installing an older Visual Studio product, allowing it to be upgraded to SP1 level by simply repairing(reapplying) the service pack using the separate entry in the Control Panel. But one side effect of this decision is that the entry for Service Pack 1 is not automatically removed when the underlying Visual Studio product is removed. Selecting Uninstall using the Visual Studio Service Pack 1 entry in the control panel will cause the entry to be removed, even if the underlying product is not there.
When you click the uninstall in the control panel, can you choose the remove like:
As for the Tools for Office Runtime, the entry will not be deleted when we remove it.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 6:17 AM
Here is my solution to remove VS2010 SP1 if you can not remove it from Control Panel -> uninstall program.
First, you need to extract the VS2010SP1.iso file into any folder VS2010SP1.
Second, find and execute setup.exe file. This will show you window that give options whether to re-apply or remove like picture above.
It's hard to be advanced programmer
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 2:09 PM | 1 vote
Like IRW7 says Extract setup.exe from .iso and then run from commandline:
Setup.exe /Uninstall
This will remove SP1 from your system.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2:37 PM | 1 vote
This worked for me also - thanks ugumba:
C:\ProgramData\VS\vs10sp1\SetupCache>setup /uninstall
Re-installing windows as stated above seems a bit drastic. It did say I might not be able to re-install VS2010 SP1 again after this - so why. I'm done with it. If you might need to re-install it - read the fine print.
Thursday, June 12, 2014 12:28 AM
I had the same problem.
I downloaded VS2010 SP1, ran it, selected "reapply...", click cancel whenever prompted about missing a component. Then uninstalled it, also clicking cancel whenever prompted about missing a component. Now, VS2010SP1 is completely gone as far as I know.
Hong
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:39 PM | 1 vote
For me it was looking good, however the VS2010SP1 did not disappear from the feature list. (Win7)
After the successfull run of setup.exe /uninstall, I moved the c:\ProgramData\VS\vs10sp1\SetupCache to the temp folder, and retried to uninstall. Obviously it did not find the setup file, but also offered to remove the item from the list.
So it is now removed - however no one can be sure, that some traces not left on my machine...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 11:32 AM
To uninstall VS2010 SP1 first need to run below this command from RUN options "C:\ProgramData\VS\vs10sp1\SetupCache>setup /uninstall"
And after need to delete VS folder from "C:\ProgramData\ folder and after try to uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1. It will definitely go off from Add Remove Programs.