Visual Studio Setup Blocked or Can’t Uninstall

For some reason a Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition installation I had on one of my machines was experiencing problems: solution files were not loading properly, and what’s worse is that installation instance had gone totally missing from “Uninstall a Program” in Windows Control Panel. Also, every time I tried running the setup file vs_community.exe from the ISO image, I would get an error saying “The product version that you are trying to set up is earlier than the version already installed on this computer”.

What I ended up doing was to run the setup file with the two following switches:

vs_community.exe /uninstall /force

Luckily, it went forward with uninstalling the instance I had on my machine.

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