How to stop incredibuild from auto-installation on my PC?

Question

It seems that incredibuild was installed on my PC, likely came in bundle with visual studio. It autostarts when my PC runs, and it has high disk usage and eventually will slow down the entire PC. I will have to stop it from running to make my PC fast again.

I tried removing it but each time I did, it would come back a few days later even if I havent used visual studio for the past 2 weeks. Disabling it from startup will not work either, it will be running when the PC starts anyway. So what am I supposed to do with Incredibuild? I dont want to uninstall Visual Studio, but I need Incredibuild gone.

Answer 1

IncrediBuild is a build acceleration software that accelerates Visual Studio compilations by distributing the compilation tasks to idle machines across your network. As IncrediBuild is bundled with Visual Studio, you probably chose to install it as part of your Visual Studio setup. IncrediBuild is not supposed to use any of your resources when it is not in use and we haven't received such a feedback from the >100,000 developer using IncrediBuild... To uninstall the IncrediBuild plug-in, go to Visual Studio Tools->Extensions and Updates. In the popup window, under the Install tab, choose IncrediBuild Build Acceleration and uninstall. We'd highly appreciate if you can make sure that the problem you reported indeed comes from IncrediBuild and if so, contact us at [email protected]

Disclaimer, the write is working at IncrediBuild.