Clean Uninstall of Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 and Install Free Visual Studio 2013 Community Version!


Microsoft Visual Studio is a powerful development tool that is widely used. The Visual Studio 2013 community version is provided for free as long as you promise you don’t use it to develop commercial software (in that case, you have to pay for the IDE).

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visual studio 2013 community version installation

The Visual Studio 2013 community version can be downloaded at this URL: http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx

My C drive only has 100GB (SSD), therefore the free space was marked red (less than 10GB) after I install Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012. I then decided to remove these two versions first before installing Visual Studio 2013 Community Version.

Clean Uninstallation of Visual Studio 2010

The VS2010 has installed lots of components which will not be removed (and become useless and space-consuming) if you un-install them normally from control panel. Therefore, Microsoft provides a utility to clean uninstall these files completely. You can download this utility locally at: https://helloacm.com/static/vs2010_uninstall-rtm.enu.exe

Clean Uninstallation of Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio 2012 Uninstallation is a lot better experience. However, if you wish a completely clean removal, you can then run the VS 2012 setup file by the following command:

vs_ultimate.exe /uninstall /force

If you go to Control Panel – Programs and Features, you will find lots of programs related to Visual Studio.

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Visual Studio Related Files in Control Panel

The *runtime* is used for developers to compile applications for specific VS edition. The *redistribute* is needed to run applications (e.g. C++ built by Visual Studio), which is suggested to keep. And there are many others, which in my opinion can be safely removed, for example, SQL Server if you don’t need to develop applications that use Microsoft SQL server. *Service Packages for VS can also be removed.

In fact, as I am going to Install visual studio 2013 community version later, I removed most of them including Microsoft Visual Studio Macro Tools.

Now, after all these, my C drive space has increased to 28GB, Wow!

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