How to remove Visual Studio 2012 so that I can install the version with the preinstalled version? Registry keys?

Question

I installed VS2012 from the Internet and joined a company that has a copy of VS2012 with embedded keys. So I removed the version from the Internet and installed the company version, but I still get "3 days ..."

So, is there any other uninstall? Perhaps some registry keys?

Answer 1

Source: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/6fadba03-5b07-47b1-9f5e-ed207462d411/how-to-completely-uninstall-vs-2012-rc?forum=vssetup

If your OS is Win 7:

• Empty the % temp% folder, these are all temporary files. Ignore those files that you cannot delete.
• We may need to reset the templates. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the \ Common7 \ IDE folder (by default x86 OS C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0 \ Common7 \ IDE
  x64 OS C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0 \ Common7 \ IDE);
• Delete ItemTemplatesCache, ProjectTemplatesCache ;
• Open the Visual Studio (2012) command line in the Start menu → All Programs → Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 → Visual Studio Tools (run this with administrator rights: right-click the program → Run as administrator);
• Run the devenv / InstallVSTemplates switch.
• Run the devenv / Setup switch

If reset patterns did not help, try resetting Visual Studio

• Open the Visual Studio (2012) command line in the Start menu → All Programs → Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 → Visual Studio Tools (run this with administrator rights: right-click the program → Run as administrator);
• Try using some devenv switches on the command line:
  • Run devenv / Resetsettings to fix the cause of the damaged settings.
  • Run devenv / ResetSkipPkgs on the command line.
  • Run devenv / Safemode to make sure you can apply it correctly. This may eliminate the possibility that third-party add-ins or packages are causing problems.
• Switch and try a new user account. This may eliminate the possibility of a corrupted user profile.

If you are running Win 8, try using all the APP pages and open a prompt.

Alternatively, you can try running the installation to restore Visual Studio.

If this does not work, I would suggest uninstalling and reinstalling.