Cannot install/uninstall Visual C++ 2015-2022

22878 said:

Did upgrade in place. Took 40 minutes. Issue NOT resolved. When it booted back into Windows, I had my old wallpaper and everything looks the same. I was expecting some things to be different, but they aren't. How do I even know the upgrade happened? Nothing seems different, but I went through the whole process of it restarting several times then it getting to the We got some updates for you or whatever... Almost There... text on the screen, then it booted right into Windows. I didn't go through any of the initial settings or anything. I do have a Windows.old folder now, which is about 28.7GB in size. Does that confirm I upgraded? The system literally looks identical to before. I don't think I lost any settings. So much for Microsoft doing something amazing, lol. Please.

How to Delete Windows.old and $Windows.~BT folders in Windows 10



If it didn't fix the problem... then something else is affecting those files.
Which I indicated in post #7.

22878 said:

How are you a 'GURU'? You haven't provided anything even semi-helpful. I DON'T know wut entwork means in thie saxampel. The dir doesn't exist, I already told you what the problem is.

Well I'm sure you can figure out the problem yourself... I'm through here. Good luck.

I found another idea. I am NOT SURE about what the results would be for this. You have to be familiar with the Registry. Proceed at your own caution.
Me, personally, because I would try anything, I would try this method, YET I do not reccommend it.


Here's my idea:
Make a Restore Point first, then
Open the Registry and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products
In that folder, you'll see a bunch of folders in here.
Use your keyboard Down Arrow to browse in each one, from the top.
On the right, you will see the name of the selected installation of programs.
You will eventually find:







Those are all the ones for 2022 on my computer.
For each of the folders, Right on the folder click -> Export -> Save a reg file on your Desktop.



I am ASSUMING that when you do this, and when you restart the computer, Windows will not know that they are installed. So when you want to try to install the 2015-2022 one, then it would install it.

That is JUST an assumption. I don't know what the results would be.

Edit from my last post:

I just noticed that the link above my previous post suggests the idea I stated.