Visual Studio Community 2017

How to uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017 from your PC

Visual Studio Community 2017 is a software application. This page contains details on how to uninstall it from your PC. It is written by Microsoft Corporation. Go over here for more details on Microsoft Corporation. Visual Studio Community 2017 is frequently set up in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community directory, however this location may differ a lot depending on the user's option when installing the program. The full command line for uninstalling Visual Studio Community 2017 is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\setup.exe. Note that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you might be prompted for admin rights. The application's main executable file occupies 703.93 KB (720824 bytes) on disk and is labeled devenv.exe.

Visual Studio Community 2017 is composed of the following executables which occupy 28.19 MB (29555973 bytes) on disk:

DDConfigCA.exe (146.95 KB)
devenv.exe (703.93 KB)
FeedbackCollector.exe (325.91 KB)
PerfWatson2.exe (62.57 KB)
StorePID.exe (47.12 KB)
TCM.exe (188.91 KB)
VSFinalizer.exe (107.78 KB)
VSHiveStub.exe (27.40 KB)
VSInitializer.exe (88.28 KB)
VSIXInstaller.exe (412.90 KB)
VSLaunchBrowser.exe (19.41 KB)
vsn.exe (16.89 KB)
VsRegEdit.exe (344.88 KB)
VSWebHandler.exe (96.48 KB)
VSWebLauncher.exe (181.49 KB)
BuildNotificationApp.exe (313.93 KB)
EndTask.exe (41.92 KB)
TF.exe (369.90 KB)
TFSBuild.exe (173.41 KB)
TfsDeleteProject.exe (25.94 KB)
TFSSecurity.exe (54.93 KB)
vsDiffMerge.exe (237.93 KB)
witadmin.exe (226.41 KB)
git.exe (45.52 KB)
blocked-file-util.exe (50.33 KB)
brotli.exe (815.86 KB)
git-askpass.exe (49.69 KB)
git-askyesno.exe (19.91 KB)
git-credential-helper-selector.exe (66.70 KB)
git-credential-wincred.exe (61.05 KB)
git-http-fetch.exe (2.27 MB)
git-http-push.exe (2.28 MB)
git-upload-pack.exe (45.52 KB)
git-remote-https.exe (2.28 MB)
git-sh-i18n--envsubst.exe (2.08 MB)
git.exe (3.67 MB)
headless-git.exe (32.52 KB)
lzmadec.exe (56.83 KB)
lzmainfo.exe (27.64 KB)
proxy-lookup.exe (48.24 KB)
xzcat.exe (90.31 KB)
xmlcatalog.exe (56.50 KB)
xmllint.exe (138.11 KB)
xzdec.exe (56.83 KB)
Atlassian.Bitbucket.UI.exe (41.93 KB)
git-credential-manager-core.exe (73.43 KB)
GitHub.UI.exe (44.41 KB)
GitLab.UI.exe (34.91 KB)
awk.exe (606.25 KB)
b2sum.exe (73.06 KB)
basename.exe (34.27 KB)
basenc.exe (50.08 KB)
cat.exe (37.62 KB)
chattr.exe (86.72 KB)
cmp.exe (48.30 KB)
comm.exe (40.79 KB)
cp.exe (119.55 KB)
cut.exe (43.86 KB)
cygwin-console-helper.exe (267.69 KB)
dash.exe (98.58 KB)
date.exe (127.91 KB)
diff.exe (203.18 KB)
diff3.exe (60.94 KB)
dirname.exe (33.22 KB)
echo.exe (34.62 KB)
env.exe (43.74 KB)
expr.exe (104.79 KB)
false.exe (31.54 KB)
fido2-assert.exe (27.01 KB)
fido2-cred.exe (26.01 KB)
fido2-token.exe (36.01 KB)
find.exe (273.49 KB)
gencat.exe (92.91 KB)
getfacl.exe (85.29 KB)
getopt.exe (17.41 KB)
gmondump.exe (83.95 KB)
grep.exe (212.05 KB)
head.exe (47.38 KB)
ls.exe (146.75 KB)
lsattr.exe (86.59 KB)
mkdir.exe (73.04 KB)
mktemp.exe (45.30 KB)
mv.exe (128.65 KB)
pathchk.exe (33.77 KB)
printf.exe (70.81 KB)
profiler.exe (189.29 KB)
pwd.exe (35.61 KB)
readlink.exe (47.25 KB)
rebase.exe (991.96 KB)
rm.exe (64.46 KB)
rmdir.exe (62.25 KB)
sdiff.exe (51.39 KB)
sed.exe (166.90 KB)
sh.exe (1.94 MB)
sort.exe (106.65 KB)
ssh-add.exe (370.76 KB)
ssh-agent.exe (351.23 KB)
ssh.exe (838.29 KB)
tail.exe (59.43 KB)
test.exe (68.28 KB)
touch.exe (115.03 KB)
tr.exe (50.01 KB)
true.exe (31.54 KB)
uname.exe (33.74 KB)
uniq.exe (45.25 KB)
wc.exe (47.30 KB)
xargs.exe (63.44 KB)
CheckHyperVHost.exe (81.44 KB)
ServiceHub.RoslynCodeAnalysisService.exe (16.40 KB)
ServiceHub.Host.CLR.x64.exe (15.93 KB)
ServiceHub.SettingsHost.exe (16.93 KB)

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This web page is about Visual Studio Community 2017 version 15.9.49 alone. For other Visual Studio Community 2017 versions please click below:

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Some files and registry entries are typically left behind when you uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017.

Folders left behind when you uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community

Check for and delete the following files from your disk when you uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\1033\BlendMui_Brand_708_10000.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\1033\cmddefui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\1033\Microsoft.VisualStudioUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\1033\msenvmui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\1033\MsEnvMui_Brand_708_0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\1033\msenvui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\1033\vslogui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-black_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-black_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-black_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-black_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-standard_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-standard_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-standard_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-standard_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-white_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-white_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-white_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.150x150.contrast-white_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-black_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-black_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-black_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-black_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-standard_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-standard_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-standard_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-standard_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-white_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-white_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-white_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Assets\VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-white_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation.manifest
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\coloader80.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\coloader80.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\contextp.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\cscodemodelextensibility.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\csiface.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\DebuggerProxy.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte100.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte80.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte80a.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte90.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte90a.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties100.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties110.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties120.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties90.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties90a.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\Microsoft.VisualStudio.CompilerHostObjectsProxy.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProductKeyDialog.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv100p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv110p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv120p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv121p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv140p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv141p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv150p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv151p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv153p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv155p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv156p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv157p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv158p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv159p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv2p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv80p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv90p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenvp.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\publish.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\TextMgrP.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\VBCodeModelExtensibility.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vcsharpextensibilitylib.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vsext.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vshelp.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vshelp80.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vshelp80.tlb.manifest
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vslangproj.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vslangproj100.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vslangproj110.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vslangproj140.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Automation\vslangproj150.olb

You will find in the Windows Registry that the following keys will not be cleaned; remove them one by one using regedit.exe:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\c2577586

A way to uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017 with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Visual Studio Community 2017 is an application offered by Microsoft Corporation. Sometimes, computer users decide to remove it. This is hard because performing this manually takes some know-how regarding removing Windows programs manually. The best QUICK procedure to remove Visual Studio Community 2017 is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:

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6. Scroll the list of programs until you locate Visual Studio Community 2017 or simply activate the Search field and type in "Visual Studio Community 2017". If it is installed on your PC the Visual Studio Community 2017 program will be found very quickly. After you click Visual Studio Community 2017 in the list of apps, the following information regarding the application is made available to you:

Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This explains the opinion other people have regarding Visual Studio Community 2017, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
Reviews by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
Details regarding the app you are about to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation page will show up. accept the removal by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017.

8. After removing Visual Studio Community 2017, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items that belong Visual Studio Community 2017 which have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling Visual Studio Community 2017 using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

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Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017 by Microsoft Corporation from your computer, nor are we saying that Visual Studio Community 2017 by Microsoft Corporation is not a good application. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017 in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.

2022-07-03 / Written by Andreea Kartman for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2022-07-03 20:31:42.090

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