While VsPreClean.vsexe is not a standard executable component of the Visual Studio 2012 core architecture, the of a "Pre-Clean" execution is integral to the IDE's maintenance cycle.
Visual Studio 2012 introduced by default ( /m switch in MSBuild). Parallel builds sometimes cause race conditions where one build process tries to clean a file while another is still writing it. Later versions of VS (2015+) improved file lock handling and retry logic. vsprecleanvsexe visual studio 2012 exclusive
Users may encounter issues where the installer halts because it cannot find or execute this specific file. Typical causes and solutions include: While VsPreClean