Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express

A guide to uninstall Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express from your PC

This page contains complete information on how to uninstall Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express for Windows. It was coded for Windows by Microsoft Corporation. More information on Microsoft Corporation can be seen here. The program is frequently installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress directory (same installation drive as Windows). The entire uninstall command line for Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vs_installer.exe. Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express's main file takes around 640.96 KB (656344 bytes) and is named WDExpress.exe.

Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express contains of the executables below. They take 45.49 MB (47696092 bytes) on disk.

DDConfigCA.exe (153.37 KB)
FeedbackCollector.exe (332.34 KB)
PerfWatson2.exe (62.57 KB)
StorePID.exe (47.12 KB)
TCM.exe (195.27 KB)
VSFinalizer.exe (107.78 KB)
VSHiveStub.exe (26.55 KB)
VSInitializer.exe (88.28 KB)
VSIXInstaller.exe (412.35 KB)
VSLaunchBrowser.exe (25.82 KB)
vsn.exe (23.27 KB)
VsRegEdit.exe (344.88 KB)
VSWebHandler.exe (102.41 KB)
VSWebLauncher.exe (187.95 KB)
WDExpress.exe (640.96 KB)
BuildNotificationApp.exe (320.34 KB)
EndTask.exe (48.52 KB)
TF.exe (376.48 KB)
TFSBuild.exe (179.79 KB)
TfsDeleteProject.exe (32.53 KB)
TFSSecurity.exe (61.30 KB)
vsDiffMerge.exe (244.30 KB)
witadmin.exe (233.00 KB)
git.exe (41.55 KB)
blocked-file-util.exe (20.22 KB)
git-credential-store.exe (1.29 MB)
git-credential-wincred.exe (30.59 KB)
git-fast-import.exe (1.32 MB)
git-http-fetch.exe (1.40 MB)
git-http-push.exe (1.42 MB)
git-receive-pack.exe (41.55 KB)
git-remote-https.exe (1.42 MB)
git-sh-i18n--envsubst.exe (1.28 MB)
git-show-index.exe (1.28 MB)
git-upload-pack.exe (1.36 MB)
git.exe (2.34 MB)
i686-w64-mingw32-deflatehd.exe (64.34 KB)
i686-w64-mingw32-inflatehd.exe (61.29 KB)
proxy-lookup.exe (19.63 KB)
git-askpass.exe (232.31 KB)
git-credential-manager.exe (182.34 KB)
GitHub.Authentication.exe (293.50 KB)
awk.exe (563.63 KB)
b2sum.exe (72.64 KB)
basename.exe (32.24 KB)
cat.exe (38.28 KB)
comm.exe (38.18 KB)
cp.exe (107.26 KB)
cut.exe (41.83 KB)
dash.exe (102.08 KB)
date.exe (116.86 KB)
dirname.exe (32.18 KB)
echo.exe (32.55 KB)
env.exe (31.27 KB)
expr.exe (100.16 KB)
false.exe (30.01 KB)
find.exe (259.91 KB)
getfacl.exe (158.69 KB)
getopt.exe (16.95 KB)
grep.exe (212.51 KB)
head.exe (46.49 KB)
ls.exe (138.32 KB)
mkdir.exe (70.80 KB)
mktemp.exe (43.28 KB)
mv.exe (116.93 KB)
pathchk.exe (32.30 KB)
printf.exe (69.53 KB)
pwd.exe (34.08 KB)
readlink.exe (46.10 KB)
rebase.exe (914.61 KB)
rm.exe (62.82 KB)
rmdir.exe (61.04 KB)
sed.exe (161.14 KB)
sh.exe (2.06 MB)
sort.exe (105.99 KB)
ssh-add.exe (367.53 KB)
ssh-agent.exe (382.54 KB)
ssh.exe (718.99 KB)
tail.exe (57.32 KB)
test.exe (67.57 KB)
touch.exe (104.94 KB)
tr.exe (49.27 KB)
true.exe (30.01 KB)
uname.exe (32.17 KB)
uniq.exe (43.75 KB)
wc.exe (47.30 KB)
xargs.exe (64.97 KB)
CheckHyperVHost.exe (81.44 KB)
ServiceHub.RoslynCodeAnalysisService.exe (15.58 KB)
ServiceHub.Host.CLR.x64.exe (15.09 KB)
ServiceHub.VSDetouredHost.exe (15.88 KB)
ServiceHub.Host.Node.x86.exe (17.84 MB)

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The information on this page is only about version 15.9.28307.1146 of Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express. You can find here a few links to other Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express releases:

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Some files and registry entries are frequently left behind when you remove Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express.

Folders that were left behind:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress

Generally, the following files remain on disk:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\cmddefui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\Microsoft.VisualStudio.DesignUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\Microsoft.VisualStudio.EditorsUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExportTemplateUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Windows.FormsUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\Microsoft.VisualStudioUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\Microsoft.VSDesignerUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\msenvui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\UpgradeReport.xslt
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\vb7to8ui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\vbdebugui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\VSConvertersPackageUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\vslogui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\vsslnui.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\VsWizUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\WDExpressMUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\1033\WindowsFormsIntegration.PackageUI.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\adodb.manifest
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-black_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-black_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-black_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-black_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-standard_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-standard_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-standard_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-standard_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-white_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-white_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-white_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.150x150.contrast-white_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-black_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-black_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-black_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-black_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-standard_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-standard_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-standard_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-standard_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-white_scale-100.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-white_scale-140.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-white_scale-180.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Assets\WDExpress.70x70.contrast-white_scale-80.png
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation.manifest
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\clientbuildmgr.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\coloader80.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\coloader80.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\contextp.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\cscodemodelextensibility.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\csiface.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\DebuggerProxy.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\DiagnosticsTap.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dsref80.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte100.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte80.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte80a.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte90.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dte90a.olb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties100.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties110.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties120.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties90.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\dteproperties90a.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\Microsoft.VisualStudio.CompilerHostObjectsProxy.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\Microsoft.VisualStudio.ProductKeyDialog.tlb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Wizard.TestProjectWizards.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Wizard.TestProjectWizards.manifest
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msdia140.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv100p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv110p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv120p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv121p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv140p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv141p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv150p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv151p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv153p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv155p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv156p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv157p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv158p.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\Automation\msenv159p.dll

Many times the following registry data will not be cleaned:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\234200bb

Additional values that you should clean:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\WDExpress\Common7\IDE\wdexpress.exe

A way to uninstall Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express from your computer with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express is an application offered by the software company Microsoft Corporation. Sometimes, users want to erase this program. Sometimes this is hard because removing this manually requires some skill regarding removing Windows programs manually. One of the best EASY approach to erase Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:

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Technical information regarding the program you wish to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

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The text above is not a recommendation to remove Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express by Microsoft Corporation from your PC, we are not saying that Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express by Microsoft Corporation is not a good application for your computer. This text only contains detailed info on how to remove Visual Studio 2017 Desktop Express in case you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.

2022-06-02 / Written by Dan Armano for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2022-06-02 05:23:59.220

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