Visual Studio Community 2017

A guide to uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017 from your computer

Visual Studio Community 2017 is a software application. This page is comprised of details on how to remove it from your computer. It is produced by Microsoft Corporation. You can read more on Microsoft Corporation or check for application updates here. Usually the Visual Studio Community 2017 application is to be found in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community folder, depending on the user's option during install. The full uninstall command line for Visual Studio Community 2017 is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\setup.exe. The application's main executable file is called devenv.exe and its approximative size is 704.09 KB (720984 bytes).

Visual Studio Community 2017 installs the following the executables on your PC, taking about 45.42 MB (47624136 bytes) on disk.

DDConfigCA.exe (147.09 KB)
devenv.exe (704.09 KB)
FeedbackCollector.exe (326.09 KB)
PerfWatson2.exe (57.58 KB)
StorePID.exe (41.60 KB)
TCM.exe (189.02 KB)
VSFinalizer.exe (102.05 KB)
VSHiveStub.exe (27.54 KB)
VSInitializer.exe (82.95 KB)
VSIXInstaller.exe (413.02 KB)
VSLaunchBrowser.exe (19.57 KB)
vsn.exe (17.06 KB)
VsRegEdit.exe (339.10 KB)
VSWebHandler.exe (96.63 KB)
VSWebLauncher.exe (181.62 KB)
BuildNotificationApp.exe (314.08 KB)
EndTask.exe (42.05 KB)
TF.exe (370.05 KB)
TFSBuild.exe (173.55 KB)
TfsDeleteProject.exe (26.09 KB)
TFSSecurity.exe (55.07 KB)
vsDiffMerge.exe (238.06 KB)
witadmin.exe (226.58 KB)
git-receive-pack.exe (44.24 KB)
git-upload-pack.exe (44.20 KB)
git.exe (56.95 KB)
scalar.exe (56.97 KB)
tig.exe (57.45 KB)
blocked-file-util.exe (62.63 KB)
brotli.exe (79.55 KB)
git-askpass.exe (60.16 KB)
git-askyesno.exe (28.93 KB)
git-credential-helper-selector.exe (77.94 KB)
git-credential-manager.exe (146.54 KB)
git-credential-wincred.exe (74.52 KB)
git-http-fetch.exe (2.58 MB)
git-http-push.exe (2.59 MB)
git-receive-pack.exe (56.96 KB)
git-remote-http.exe (2.60 MB)
git-remote-https.exe (2.60 MB)
git-sh-i18n--envsubst.exe (2.52 MB)
git-upload-pack.exe (56.96 KB)
git.exe (4.22 MB)
headless-git.exe (43.96 KB)
proxy-lookup.exe (58.58 KB)
psl.exe (67.30 KB)
scalar.exe (11.18 MB)
edit-git-bash.exe (117.39 KB)
git-wrapper.exe (56.98 KB)
awk.exe (616.31 KB)
b2sum.exe (83.12 KB)
basename.exe (44.34 KB)
basenc.exe (60.18 KB)
cat.exe (47.72 KB)
chattr.exe (97.30 KB)
cmp.exe (58.35 KB)
comm.exe (50.86 KB)
cp.exe (129.62 KB)
cut.exe (53.93 KB)
cygwin-console-helper.exe (277.77 KB)
dash.exe (108.68 KB)
date.exe (137.99 KB)
diff.exe (213.26 KB)
diff3.exe (71.02 KB)
dirname.exe (43.27 KB)
echo.exe (44.67 KB)
env.exe (53.84 KB)
expr.exe (114.86 KB)
false.exe (41.61 KB)
find.exe (283.55 KB)
gencat.exe (102.99 KB)
getfacl.exe (95.40 KB)
getopt.exe (27.47 KB)
gmondump.exe (94.06 KB)
grep.exe (222.13 KB)
head.exe (57.43 KB)
ls.exe (156.80 KB)
lsattr.exe (96.66 KB)
mkdir.exe (83.10 KB)
mktemp.exe (55.38 KB)
mv.exe (138.73 KB)
pathchk.exe (43.84 KB)
printf.exe (80.88 KB)
profiler.exe (199.38 KB)
pwd.exe (45.70 KB)
readlink.exe (57.30 KB)
rebase.exe (1,002.04 KB)
rm.exe (74.54 KB)
rmdir.exe (72.34 KB)
sdiff.exe (61.47 KB)
sed.exe (176.98 KB)
sh.exe (2.09 MB)
sort.exe (116.75 KB)
ssh-add.exe (381.44 KB)
ssh-agent.exe (369.64 KB)
ssh.exe (935.58 KB)
tail.exe (69.52 KB)
test.exe (78.36 KB)
touch.exe (125.10 KB)
tr.exe (60.09 KB)
true.exe (41.62 KB)
uname.exe (43.82 KB)
uniq.exe (55.33 KB)
wc.exe (57.38 KB)
xargs.exe (73.53 KB)
ssh-keysign.exe (440.59 KB)
ssh-pkcs11-helper.exe (346.59 KB)
ssh-sk-helper.exe (343.48 KB)
getprocaddr32.exe (280.85 KB)
getprocaddr64.exe (318.49 KB)
CheckHyperVHost.exe (81.44 KB)
ServiceHub.RoslynCodeAnalysisService.exe (16.56 KB)
ServiceHub.Host.CLR.x64.exe (16.05 KB)
ServiceHub.VSDetouredHost.exe (17.04 KB)

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The information on this page is only about version 15.9.72 of Visual Studio Community 2017. You can find here a few links to other Visual Studio Community 2017 versions:

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After the uninstall process, the application leaves some files behind on the computer. Some of these are shown below.

Folders that were left behind:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community

Registry that is not cleaned:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\52238250

How to uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017 from your computer using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Visual Studio Community 2017 is an application offered by Microsoft Corporation. Frequently, people try to remove it. This can be troublesome because doing this manually takes some know-how related to removing Windows programs manually. One of the best EASY procedure to remove Visual Studio Community 2017 is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:

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4. Activate the Uninstall Programs feature
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5. A list of the programs installed on your PC will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of programs until you find Visual Studio Community 2017 or simply click 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. Notice that after you click Visual Studio Community 2017 in the list of programs, the following data about the program is shown to you:

Star rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have about Visual Studio Community 2017, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
Opinions by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
Details about the application you wish to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will appear. accept the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove Visual Studio Community 2017.
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8. After uninstalling Visual Studio Community 2017, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run a cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong Visual Studio Community 2017 which have been left behind will be detected and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By uninstalling Visual Studio Community 2017 with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry entries, files or folders are left behind on your system.

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Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017 by Microsoft Corporation from your PC, we are not saying that Visual Studio Community 2017 by Microsoft Corporation is not a good application for your computer. This page only contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Visual Studio Community 2017 supposing you want to. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.

2025-04-17 / Written by Daniel Statescu for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2025-04-17 10:46:25.080

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