title: How to fix visual studio error "cannot find one or more components .Please re-install the application" in windows 8.1?
body: <p>As <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/2079472/alex-hardwicke">Alex</a> suggests find <code>devenv.exe</code> and run it . when  search for <code>devenv.exe</code> then I found it's there . When I run this file getting error "<code>cannot find one or more components .Please reinstall the application</code>" .I re-installed visual studio thrice still getting same error . How to fix this error .
  It's visual studio ultimate with update 3 . I don't have ISO file , file automatically downloaded by installer.It's got installed smoothly i.e. without giving any error . </p>
  
  <p>Edit:<br/>
  <strong>Initial question was How to create shortcut on windows 8.1 for visual studio ?</strong><br/>
  <strong>Contents :</strong><br/>
  Today I installed visual studio 2013 with windows phone SDK and Multi-device  Hybrid apps on windows 8.1 .Unfortunately I am unable to find any  shortcuts related to any one of the applications which are installed today . </p>
  
  <p>How can I create  shortcut or which file should I execute to open IDE ?<br/></p>
  
  <p>One answer would be <code>search in search charm</code> ,it's not there . I tried all methods that i could .</p>
  
  <p>Following folders are there in windows 8.1 program files </p>
  
  <p>C:\Program Files\iTunes<br/>
  C:\Program Files\iPod<br/>
  C:\Program Files\Windows Identity Foundation<br/>
  C:\Program Files\Hyper-V<br/>
  C:\Program Files\Common Files<br/>
  C:\Program Files\IIS Express<br/>
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Identity Extensions<br/>
  C:\Program Files\SharePoint Client Components<br/>
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server<br/>
  C:\Program Files\Application Verifier<br/>
  C:\Program Files\MSBuild<br/>
  C:\Program Files\IIS<br/>
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0 <br/>
  Many folders are there related to these apps in programfilesx86 .</p>