How to fix visual studio error "cannot find one or more components .Please re-install the application" in windows 8.1?

windows visual-studio installation windows-8.1
user3919801 picture user3919801 · Oct 3, 2014 · Viewed 73.4k times · Source

As Alex suggests find devenv.exe and run it . when search for devenv.exe then I found it's there . When I run this file getting error "cannot find one or more components .Please reinstall the application" .I re-installed visual studio thrice still getting same error . How to fix this error . It's visual studio ultimate with update 3 . I don't have ISO file , file automatically downloaded by installer.It's got installed smoothly i.e. without giving any error .

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Initial question was How to create shortcut on windows 8.1 for visual studio ?
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Today I installed visual studio 2013 with windows phone SDK and Multi-device Hybrid apps on windows 8.1 .Unfortunately I am unable to find any shortcuts related to any one of the applications which are installed today .

How can I create shortcut or which file should I execute to open IDE ?

One answer would be search in search charm ,it's not there . I tried all methods that i could .

Following folders are there in windows 8.1 program files

C:\Program Files\iTunes
C:\Program Files\iPod
C:\Program Files\Windows Identity Foundation
C:\Program Files\Hyper-V
C:\Program Files\Common Files
C:\Program Files\IIS Express
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Identity Extensions
C:\Program Files\SharePoint Client Components
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server
C:\Program Files\Application Verifier
C:\Program Files\MSBuild
C:\Program Files\IIS
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0
Many folders are there related to these apps in programfilesx86 .

Answer

Arjan van Dam picture Arjan van Dam · Apr 2, 2015

Same problem for me. My solution:
Open command prompt as administrator

cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE
devenv /resetuserdata

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