Can't uninstall Visual Studio 2015 (The storage control blocks were destroyed)

Question

So I wanted to force an uninstallation of VS2015 Enterprise with \"vs_enterprise.exe /uninstall /force\", but I get an error message:

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Answer 1

In case anyone encounters this again, the following did the trick for me:

1. Download and install KB2999226 from

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49093

2. Create a symbolic link from c:\Windowss\SysNative to c:\Windows\System32 using the following command line:

mklink /D c:\Windows\SysNative c:\Windows\System32

3. Running the following command from command prompt:

"C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{68432bbb-c9a5-4a7b-bab3-ae5a49b28303}\vs_professional.exe" /uninstall /force

The {6844...} part might be different on different machines and the vs_professional.exe might be located at different location but I guess anyone should be able to search for it inside the "PackageCache" folder