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

I ran into this problem on Windows 8.1 when the VS 2010 Web installer failed to install correctly the first time. I followed Kaba's steps above with a slight difference and it solved the problem for me (so kudos to Kaba). The difference is that I deleted all the “VisualStudio\10.0” keys and all its sub-keys, as well as the “VisualStudio\10.0_Config” and sub-keys.