Completely Uninstall Visual Studio, multiple versions

I recently installed Visual Studio 2019 on a Windows 10 machine where VS 2013 and VS 2017 had already been installed long ago. VS 2019 is acting very flaky (can't compile a nearly pristine C++ project) so I'd like to scrub all traces of any VS from my computer and start with a fresh install of VS2019 only.

The Visual Studio Installer only wants to add software. How can I safely wipe all the installations of Visual Studio entirely off my system so that I can get a clean install? Add/Remove Programs shows I have dozens of Microsoft products installed; it's not at all clear to me which ones should be removed to accomplish my goal.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66555907/completely-uninstall-visual-studio-multiple-versions March 10, 2021 at 06:50AM