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

Question

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

Answer 1

Running cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE devenv /resetuserdata using the command prompt works fine. The only thing which everyone has missed is that you will have to reboot your PC after running the above command. I was having same error after running the command several times but was fixed after I rebooted my machine. And of course for VS 2015 replace Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0 with Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0