I can't uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64)

Question

_{Thursday, October 26, 2017 7:35 PM}

I tried to uninstall and reinstall it but I can't see it on control panel. When I try to install the program it gives me the error code 0x80070666.

I would be glad if someone can help me.

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_{Thursday, October 26, 2017 10:55 PM | 1 vote}

That error seems to be the HRESULT for of ERROR_PRODUCT_VERSION. Do you have the Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable installed? These supersede the 2015 redistributables and provides the runtime that will work with both Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 compiler programs.

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_{Friday, October 27, 2017 3:10 AM | 2 votes}

Hi selimaltındag,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

As Darran said,  0x80070666 usually means much higher Visual C++ version is installed on your machine.

You could go to Control Panel> Programs and Features to check that if another version of this product is already installed. If you insist on installing Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable, I'd suggest you try with following steps:

1. Check and install all the Windows update.

2. Uninstall the Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable

3. Run Fix it tool to fix problems that block programs from being installed.

4. Re-download from 2015 Redistributable Update 3 RC

5. Re-install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017.

If any problem persists, please feel free to contact us.

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_{Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:41 AM}

Thank you, this helped resolve my problem with the 2015 Redist version.

_{Tuesday, September 4, 2018 9:20 AM}

Wonder, why that approach was chosen. Obviously some software tries to detect and then install VC++ 2015 prerequisite and fails. It would be best if such s/w could be made to think that VC++ 2015 is installed and have the system act as if it was (probably using a dummy installer with a high version number that just adds the needed registry entries for detection)

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