{"id":3780,"date":"2014-08-20T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2014\/08\/20\/visual-studio-2010-uninstall-utility-back-online\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:29:26","slug":"visual-studio-2010-uninstall-utility-back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/visual-studio-2010-uninstall-utility-back-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2010 uninstall utility back online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago I published a utility to help perform a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Az0VIY\">clean uninstall of Visual Studio 2010<\/a>. Before we added <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/xYTj5F\">package reference counting<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/zB7ymU\">related bundles<\/a> to Visual Studio setup, we couldn&rsquo;t always be sure which products were still required so not everything was removed. <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vs2010uninstall\">This utility<\/a> will remove everything provided one of a few command line options documented in the original article.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the old site where the utility was hosted was archived and some readers recently pointed this out. I&rsquo;ve since reposted the utility on the Microsoft Download Center and created a short URL (<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vs2010uninstall\">https:\/\/aka.ms\/vs2010uninstall<\/a>) if you want to remove older Visual Studio bits since by now I&rsquo;m sure you&rsquo;re enjoying newer versions!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&rsquo;t always be sure which products were still required so not everything was removed. This utility will remove everything provided one of a few [&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":[68,1],"tags":[34,42,45,52],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-script","tag-uninstall","tag-visual-studio","tag-vs2010"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>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&rsquo;t always be sure which products were still required so not everything was removed. This utility will remove everything provided one of a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","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=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/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=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}