visual studio 2010 cannot include stdlib.h

Question

I have been dealing with this problem the whole day. The problem happened after I uninstalled visual studio from control panel. I installed visual studio professional again from webinstaller. Then I started getting these error messages:

Cannot open include file: 'stdlib.h'
Cannot open include file: 'excpt.h'
Cannot open include file: 'afxwin.h'
Cannot open include file: 'math.h'

I tried to uninstall and install several times, but it didnt help, I tried to install visual studio premium, didnt help also, somehow these header files are missing from the directory where they are supposed to be. I also searched my computer these files does not exist...I tried to repair visual studio 2010 SP1...it didn't help also.

EDIT1: I tried to create a win32 console application, and I left everything as the default:

#include "stdafx.h"

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{

    return 0;
}

And I got this compiler error:

fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdio.h': No such file or directory

Actually, it should be but stdlib.h (a C header) should also be found. If not, your install may be wrong. — Anon Mail, Oct 06 '15 at 20:01
@AnonMail probably it is, do you have any idea how to fix that.. — Samer, Oct 06 '15 at 20:04
@AnonMail everything seems normal when installing, no error messages. — Samer, Oct 06 '15 at 20:04
You should probably check the settings of your project. Try building a HelloWorld win32 Console Project and see if it finds these includes. — A.S.H, Oct 06 '15 at 20:25
This is a bug in VS2010 installation, please refer this post:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12460307/installation-of-visual-studio-2010-any-edition-installs-only-2-files-in-the-c — Matt, Oct 06 '15 at 20:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '15 at 19:19

I tried to uninstall all visual studio versions that I have, I tried to clear all VS2010 related registry ...all of that didn't work. The only solution that works for me is to copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\vc folder from one healthy computer to mine.

visual studio 2010 cannot include stdlib.h

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