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Problem: VisVim is outdated, does not work with current Visual Studio. Solution: Remove VisVim. (Martin Tournoij)
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Uninstalling Vim on MS-Windows.
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There are three ways to remove Vim:
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1. With the GUI uninstaller.
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This is only available when Vim was installed with the self-installing
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executable. This has a minimal number of questions. It can delete
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everything that was installed.
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2. With uninstall.exe.
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This removes most installed items, but does not delete the files you
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unpacked.
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3. By hand.
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This is a bit more work, but you can decide exactly what you want to
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remove. For uninstalling the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry you still
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have to use uninstall.exe.
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It's recommended to use the method that matches with how you installed Vim.
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Thus if you installed Vim by hand, delete it by hand.
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The first two methods should be available from the Add/Remove software window
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and the Vim entry in the Start menu. If these have been removed already, find
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"uninstall-gui.exe" or "uninstall.exe" in the Vim directory.
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Running these programs should be self-explanatory. Carefully read the
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messages to avoid deleting something you want to keep.
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Here are guidelines for removing Vim by hand:
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1. Remove the "Edit with Vim" popup menu entry, if it exists. This is done by
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running the uninstall.exe program. It removes the registry entries for the
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"Edit with Vim" popup menu entry. You only need to run uninstall.exe when
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you have installed the menu entry. You can also run uninstall.exe from the
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Control panel with the Add/Remove programs application.
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Note that uninstall.exe offers you the option to uninstall other items. You
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can skip this.
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2. Only if you have used the OLE version of gvim: Remove the registration of
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this program by running "gvim -unregister" in a console window.
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3. Delete the executables. If you copied the executables to another location,
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you will have to delete them from where you copied them to. If you don't
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remember where they are, look in the directories from the $PATH environment
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variable.
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If you created .bat files when installing Vim, also search for vim.bat,
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gvim.bat, etc.
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4. If you want to completely delete vim, and are not going to install another
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version, you can delete the vimrc files that you created. These are
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normally located in a directory like "C:\vim". If the $VIM environment
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variable is set, it will tell the name of the directory. Normally you can
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delete everything in this directory. Warning: You might have put some
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files there that you would like to save. If you did remove it all, you can
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skip the next step.
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5. Delete the distributed files. If you followed the directions, these will
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be located in a directory like "C:\vim\vim81". If the $VIM environment
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variable is set, the directory will be $VIM\vim81. Delete the "vim81"
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directory and all that is in it. Warning: If you changed any of the
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distributed files, or added some of your own files, you might want to save
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these first. But normally you would not have changed or added files here.
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6. Remove setting the $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME environment variable and adjust
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$PATH. $VIM only needs to be removed if you are not going to install
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another version of Vim. $VIMRUNTIME is mostly not set. Check if $PATH
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contains the path of the vim directory. Note that $PATH may be set in
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several places, you will have to find the right one, and only delete the
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Vim path from it. You might need to use the "System Properties" editor to
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change the environment variables. You can start it by selecting
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Start/Settings/Control Panel and then "System".
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7. If you added a Vim entry in the start menu, delete it.
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8. If you created icons for Vim on the desktop, delete them.
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Vim does not use .ini files. The above should remove all Vim files, except
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the ones that you moved elsewhere yourself.
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