[LLVMdev] diffs for vc7.1

[Jeff Cohen]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:51:08 +0200
Paolo Invernizzi <arathorn at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 15, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Jeff Cohen wrote:
> 
> > Just make sure you read the uninstall instructions before installing.
> > Microsoft has been known to essentially require the reformatting your
> > boot partition in order to uninstall beta versions of VS.  And, of
> > course, it is required that you uninstall the beta before installing a
> > newer beta or the release version.
> 
> Urrggg! I missed this! Can you point me to that?
> Anyway, on Microsoft side, basically you HAVE to reinstall Windows 
> every 150gg as it starts collapsing ;-)))

I cannot find any specific instructions for uninstalling the VC++ 2005
Express Edition.  There is this README file:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/readme/default.aspx.  As
it isn't the full Visual Studio it probably isn't messing around with
Windows system files.

I do know for a fact that the Visual Studio .NET beta years ago could
not be uninstalled without reformatting.  It stopped me from installing
it.