{"id":15396,"date":"2014-01-21T15:09:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T23:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/?p=15396"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T23:13:07","slug":"uninstalling-visual-studio-2013-with-vsupdate-error-element-not-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/uninstalling-visual-studio-2013-with-vsupdate-error-element-not-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninstalling Visual Studio 2013 with VSUpdate error: Element not found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first public release of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/somasegar\/archive\/2014\/01\/20\/visual-studio-2013-update-1.aspx\">Visual Studio Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=301714\">available<\/a>. There are, however, a couple of known issues in hopefully uncommon scenarios.<\/p>\n<h3>Symptom<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/05\/6303.Element_733E9DDE.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Element\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/05\/6303.Element_733E9DDE.png\" alt=\"Element\" width=\"343\" height=\"480\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>If you attempt to uninstall Visual Studio 2013 after VSUpdate has been installed, you may see an error after a while that reads \u201cElement not found.\u201d VS2013 may not be completely uninstalled from your machine.<\/p>\n<h3>Workaround<\/h3>\n<p>Try uninstalling VS2013 again from <strong>Programs and Features<\/strong>. This should completely uninstall all but a few packages (like the .NET Framework and any other packages shared with other bundles) from your machine.<\/p>\n<h3>More Information<\/h3>\n<p>This is caused by a problem in VS2013 RTM. Even if you install a future VSUpdate, uninstalling RTM while the update is installed will trigger this error. This problem is fixed, however, for future versions as well as in <a href=\"http:\/\/wixtoolset.org\">WiX v3.9<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first public release of Visual Studio Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is available. There are, however, a couple of known issues in hopefully uncommon scenarios. Symptom If you attempt to uninstall Visual Studio 2013 after VSUpdate has been installed, you may see an error after a while that reads \u201cElement not found.\u201d VS2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,40,45,55,59],"class_list":["post-15396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-installation","tag-troubleshooting","tag-visual-studio","tag-vs2013","tag-vsupdate"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Our first public release of Visual Studio Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is available. There are, however, a couple of known issues in hopefully uncommon scenarios. Symptom If you attempt to uninstall Visual Studio 2013 after VSUpdate has been installed, you may see an error after a while that reads \u201cElement not found.\u201d VS2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}