Can't uninstall Visual Studio community 2013 update 5

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_{Friday, August 14, 2015 5:54 PM | 1 vote}

after i stalled l Visual Studio community 2013 update 5, i want to install it for 2015 to get cross platform option. but i can't uninstall it. even i going to RUN, appwiz.cpl, and uninstall it but still not allow me. 

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_{Monday, August 17, 2015 1:46 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Thank you for posting in MSDN fourm.

As Brian Muth said, you don't need to uninstall the VS 2013 since it could be run with VS 2015 side by side.

If you still want to uninstall Visual Studio 2013, try to use the /uninstall /force command to remove the visual studio 2013 forcibly, please try the following steps to see whether it could be uninstalled:

1.Download the setup application you used to originally install Visual Studio 2013. If you installed from media, please insert that media.
2.Open a command prompt.
  a.Click Run on the Start menu (Start + R).
  b.Type cmd and press OK (Enter).
3.Type in the full path to the setup application and pass the following command line switches: /uninstall /force
  Example: D:\vs_community.exe /uninstall /force
4.Click the Uninstall button and follow the prompts.

If the above doesn't help, what about give another tool a try? It is Microsoft Fixit. It did work for Visual Studio 2013 in the previous case, download from here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/mats/program_install_and_uninstall

Best Regards,

Jiayi Li

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_{Friday, August 14, 2015 7:09 PM}

Visual Studio 2015 can happily co-exist with Visual Studio 2013. There is no need to uninstall.