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Sunday, March 1, 2015 10:02 PM
Hi! My laptop was working fine but someone recently installed Malware Bytes to my laptop and supposedly found 4 problems and "fixed" them afterwards Visual Studio Professional 2013 and Chrome stopped launching. When I realized this happened I uninstalled Malwarebytes but it was too late. Every time I tried launching Visual Studio I would get a message that said something like: "Two or more components could not be found. Please reinstall". I did a "fix" on Visual Studio but this solved nothing only changed the message, the new message was "The Application Data folder for Visual Studio could not be created" so I uninstalled the program and all the extras I found on my Control Panel. Downloaded Visual Studio Community 2013 I'm trying to install it but I got the same exact message again. Why is this happening? What does it mean? Before I uninstalled Visual Studio Professional 2013 I looked for ways others solved it but nothing seemed to work. Please help. Thanks!
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Monday, March 2, 2015 9:58 AM | 1 vote
Hello Danny,
The Malware Bytes may have already modified some files/registry values/environment variable which is used by Visual Studio and may be the setup cannot create it for you again.
Please try the workaround here in this blog:http://tutewall.com/application-data-folder-for-visual-studio-could-not-be-created/ and remember to backup your registry key before you do any actions to the registry table.
Best regards,
Barry
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12:25 AM
I don't understand what that person did at all.... What do I do with the key s/he provides???? Please help. Thanks!
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 9:49 AM | 1 vote
@Danny,
It means the registry table.
Please type regedit in your Run prompt and you will open the registry table.
After that, please navigate to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
And modify the value he mentioned:
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Thursday, March 5, 2015 9:36 PM
Thanks for the explanation! :) I checked but mine already has the value %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming
THe problem must be something else
Monday, March 9, 2015 8:43 AM
@Danny,
I recommend you re-run your setup and check whether the same error info persist. Also could you please check the permission of that folder? Could the problem due to you do not have enough privilege to access the folder?
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Barry
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015 1:23 AM
You can also try the solution listed here:
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Barry
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