Installation of Visual Studio 2010 (any edition) installs only 2 files in the C++ headers directory

Question

I installed Visual Studio 2010 Premium on my Windows 7 workstation. After loading a test C++ project, I noticed that it could not locate iostream. I took a look in C:\

Answer 1

The solution to this problem is as follows. It is based on the solution given in

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/774158/re-installed-visual-studio-2010-and-c-standard-headers-are-missing

• Uninstall Visual Studio 2010.
• Uninstall Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (despite the warning it gives).
• Open Registry Editor (regedit).
• Search for keys named PaddedVersion
• Remove any parent keys VisualStudio\10.0\VC\Libraries, or similar (note the version number 10.0, which corresponds to 2010). Delete all of these registry paths. The search for the PaddedVersion key is just to ease up this search.
• Install Visual Studio 2010.
• Install Visual Studio 2010 SP1.

This solution may not be minimal, but it works for me. Hopefully others can confirm. The important difference here is that it is not just the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE from which the registry path must be deleted, as indicated in the link above.