title: How to uninstall a Visual Studio 2013 extension manually?
body: <p>I just installed an extension to my Visual Studio 2013 app. I decided I don't want that extension so I went to <em>Tools->Extensions and Updates</em> and scrolled down to the extension I want to install.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is, the uninstall button doesn't do anything when I click it (and the Disable button is not even active). </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q3HYr.png" alt="VS Extensions and Updates Dialog"></p>
  
  <p>I then tried running Visual Studio as Administrator but that didn't work either.</p>
  
  <p>I searched the web for suggestions and I found one page that said to use the <em>VSIXInstaller.exe</em> utility found in Visual Studio's install directory. To uninstall and extension you have to run it with the following command line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>VSIXInstaller /q /a /u:{VSIXIdentifier}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My question is, how do I get the identifier? Is it the same as the extension version?</p>
  
  <p>Also, let's say hypothetically that using <em>VSIXInstaller</em> does not work. Is there a way to manually uninstall an extension?</p>
  
  <p>P.S. As I am posting this Stack Overflow is telling me there might be <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6646936/how-to-manually-uninstall-a-visual-studio-2010-extension">a duplicate question</a>. I read the other question and it's not quite the same. The solution given on that answer is to run VS as Administrator which I have already tried.</p>