title: How to remove Windows Phone 8.1 Emulators from Visual Studio 2013
body: <p>Windows Phone 8.1 Emulators extension is pushed by default and VS2013 keeps nagging about available updates to that extension but when I attempt to update it, I get the message stating that &quot;This computer does not support the Windows Phone emulator, which requires the 64-bit edition of Windows 8.1...&quot;</p>
  <p>So, they push the extension that is not compatible with the OS Visual Studio is being installed on, do not allow us to deselect it during installation, keep nagging about it needing an update and when an update is attempted tell us the extension is not compatible with the OS.</p>
  <p>On top of all that, this extension cannot be removed from within Visual Studio or from Control Panel, how could it possibly get more lame than that!?</p>
  <p>Anyway, how do we remove that extension and &quot;Microsoft Advertising SDK&quot; and all the other junk we don't need, and we don't want, from Visual Studio 2013.</p>