title: Visual Studio 2010 package did not load correctly for uninstalled extesions
body: <p>During visual studio startup I get lots of annoying dialogs about extensions package loading errors.
  All the extensions that fail to load are those I uninstalled.</p>
  
  <p>I checked all the places mentioned in this article (<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2009/12/07/bootstrapping-of-vs-packages-and-vsix-extensions-in-vs2010.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Bootstrapping of VS packages and VSIX extensions in VS2010</a>) and none of the extensions I get error for is there.</p>
  
  <p>Is there somewhere else I can check?</p>
  
  <p>I would "just" like to see where visual studio finds these references and kindly delete them all :)</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/q3bGz.png" alt="Visual studio error - package did not load correctly"></p>
  
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  <p>I found this folder in the windows registry:</p>
  
  <pre><code>HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3990449039-760197492-1239349315-1121\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0_Config\Packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It contains all the reference to extensions visual studio tries to load (mostly pointing to <code>HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3990449039-760197492-1239349315-1121\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0_Config\InstalledProducts</code> subfolders).</p>
  
  <p>I just renamed the folder of the extensions I did remove and I do not see load errors anymore.</p>
  
  <p>I'm sure this could cause some side effects so is anyone aware of a better way to avoid visual studio trying to load uninstalled extensions?</p>