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Asked: 2026-05-29T19:19:59+00:00

As soon as I open the VS cmd prompt it says ERROR: Cannot determine

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As soon as I open the VS cmd prompt it says “ERROR: Cannot determine the location of the VS Common Tools folder.” I’m trying to compile and eventually run my program using a compile.bat and run.bat file.

My program successfully compiled ONCE when I had the following in my compile.bat file:

call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
FileMgr.sln /rebuild debug
pause

After it worked, I tried adding the path of vcvarsall.bat in the variable “Path” in Environment Variables, hoping I wouldn’t need that initial call line in the .bat file. This didn’t work so I deleted the newly added path from “Path” but now I’m getting this error.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This can only go wrong if the registry is messed up on your machine or the VS install didn’t go well. The .bat file reads the setting from the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7\10.0 value. Insert Wow6432Node for a 64-bit operating system. Double-check with regedit.exe, the SysInternals’ ProcMon utility is always handy to troubleshoot registry problems.

    Get your machine stable again, ask questions about that at superuser.com. Try a VS2010 repair to fix the registry first, reinstall next. Shove it out of a 4th story window if all fails.

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