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This is the accepted answer and it is wrong. If you delete this folder you won’t be able to uninstall or update Visual Studio (and related tools and redistributables — this will cause security issues if an update to MSVC runtimes comes out)
– kinokijuf
Commented Jul 13, 2013 at 12:05
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You're wrong, I have without any problem managed to update Visual Studio 2012 with the latest updates. Thanks.
– Johan Svensson
Commented Aug 9, 2013 at 9:16

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