diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1a1ec2707c2..cbf6773ddd1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ artifacts/
 /tests/scripts/current
 .dotnet/
 .packages/
-./tools
+.tools/
 
 # Patches that may have been generated by scripts.
 # (These aren't generally useful to commit directly; if anything, they should be applied.)
diff --git a/.tools/vswhere/2.5.2/vswhere.exe b/.tools/vswhere/2.5.2/vswhere.exe
deleted file mode 100644
index ecfb3bfb2f5..00000000000
Binary files a/.tools/vswhere/2.5.2/vswhere.exe and /dev/null differ