HOW TO: Delete Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
Article ID: 824642 Last Update Date: January 12, 2004 Version: 2.0
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This article steps to introduce two methods that can be used to remove Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 from your computer.
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Use the Add or Remove Programs to remove Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 To remove Visual Studio .NET 2003 in the Control Panel, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel. 2. Do one of the following:
• In the Classification view in the Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs, and then click Add or Remove Programs under "or select a Control Panel Icon". • Double-click Add or Remove Programs in the Classic view of the Control Panel. 3. In the "Currently Installed Programs" list, click Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, then click Change / Delete. Delete Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 by describing the screen instructions.
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Manually remove Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
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To manually delete Visual Studio .NET 2003 from your computer, follow these steps:
1. Remove Visual Studio .NET 2003 from the Microsoft Windows Installer cache. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, and then click Run. b. In the "Open" text box, type installer, and then click OK. The Microsoft Windows Installer is launched, which is included in the Windows Installer (.msi) file cached for the program installed on the computer. c. On the View menu, click Details. d. Right-click the "Modify Date" column header, and then click Remarks. e. In the Remarks column, find a Windows Installer file with one of the following titles:
• Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Structure Design Edition 2003 - English Edition • Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Development Edition 2003 - English Edition • Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English Edition • Visual Basic .NET Standard Edition 2003 - English Visual C # .NET Standard 2003 - English Edition • Visual C .NET Standard 2003 - English Edition • Visual J # .NET Standard 2003 - English F. Right-click on this Cached Windows Installer file, and then click Uninstall . g. Exit Windows Installer. 2. Use the MSIZAP.exe utility to remove all Visual Studio .NET 2003 product registry from the registry. To get a Msizap.exe utility, download the Microsoft Windows Installer Software Development Kit (SDK). For more information on how to download Windows Installer SDK, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate
To remove all Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 product registry entries from the registry, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, and then click Run. b. In the "Open" text box, type CMD, and then click OK. c. Type CD /, then press Enter. d. Find the directory of the Windows Installer SDK to place the MSIZAP.exe utility. e. Type MSIZAP TP {product code} under the command prompt, then press ENTER. This product code depends on the installed product version. The following is a list of commands including the correct product code of each product version:
• Enterprise-level structure design: msizap tp {E05F0409-0e9A-48A1-AC04-E35E3033604A} • Enterprise-level development version: msizap tp {60600409-EA9B-45E9-A468-2C68C8DE70DF} • Professional version: msizap tp {20610409-ca 18- 41A6-9E21-A93AE82EE7C5} • Microsoft Visual Basic .NET: msizap TP {F0620409-8B20-48A0-ACA0-09D5FC90D316} • Microsoft Visual C # .NET: msizap TP {70630409-190D-4B06-A8AD-86DA9CE92D73} • Microsoft Visual C .NET: MSIZAP TP {A0640409-7336-456F-9FA9-1F129F0547F4} • Microsoft Visual J # .NET: MSIZAP TP {90650409-E202-4014-B6A4-D277D1C16D5C} 3. Remove the components from the installer's Windows component update. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, and then click Run. b. In the "Open" text box, type installer, and then click OK. Windows Installer starts, and then a list is displayed, which contains a Windows Installer file that caches the program installed on your computer. c. On the View menu, click Details. d. Right-click the "Modify Date" column header, and then click Remarks. e. In the Remarks column, find the Windows Installer file containing one of the following titles: • Microsoft FrontPage Client - English version • Visual Studio.Net Baseline - English Edition Note in User Interface (UI), "Visual Studio.net "Contains an entered error, which should be displayed as" Visual Studio .NET ". f. Right-click the Cached Windows Installer file, and then click Uninstall. g. Exit Windows Installer. 4. Using the MSIZAP.exe utility to remove all Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Windows Components Update Product Registration Items from the registry. To do this, run the following command (including the product registry key):
• Weccom.msi: msizap TP {17B66E83-1BC9-11D5-A54A-0090278A1BB8} • Baseline:. Msizap TP {D4D24FE5-FAB3-4FE2-AFFC-623955F4DF3A} 5 rename the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 folder and the folder VS7Debug . To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, and then click Run. b. In the "Open" text box, type% ProgramFiles%, then click OK. c. Find a "Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003" folder. d. Double-click the "CommON Files" folder and double-click the "Microsoft Shared" folder. e. Find the "VS7Debug" folder. f. Close this window. 6. Delete the remaining registry key. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, and then click Run. b. In the "Open" text box, type regedit, and then click OK. c. Delete the following registry key:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / VisualStudio / 7.1 • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Visual JSharp / 7.1 • HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / VisualStudio / 7.1 d. Quit Registry Editor. 7. Restart your computer. 8. Delete the contents of the TEMP folder. To do this, follow these steps:
