Four years ago I published a utility to help perform a clean uninstall of Visual Studio 2010. Before we added package reference counting and related bundles to Visual Studio setup, we couldn’t always be sure which products were still required so not everything was removed. This utility will remove everything provided one of a few command line options documented in the original article.

Unfortunately, the old site where the utility was hosted was archived and some readers recently pointed this out. I’ve since reposted the utility on the Microsoft Download Center and created a short URL (https://aka.ms/vs2010uninstall) if you want to remove older Visual Studio bits since by now I’m sure you’re enjoying newer versions!