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

Was facing the same issue with VSExpress 2015 (win 10). Fixed the problem by removing the registry key in

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ AppCompatFlags\Layers]

Refer the link for more details http://maditguy72.blogspot.ru/2013/06/cannot-find-one-or-more-components.html

Answer 2

No need to reinstall just reset devenv data…

1. cd c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 15.0\common7\ide
   devenv.exe /resetuserdata
   

2. Run VS2013/12 with administrator rights.

It will work fine.