Cannot Install Visual Studio 2008 On Vista (Including Resolution)

Alik Levin

28 Sep 2008 11:55 AM

Comments 4

Now I can. But I could not install Visual Studio 2008 on my Vista box few minutes ago. Here is the chronicles of the case that was resolved using Sysinternals' Process Monitor. After running the setup.exe and getting the splash as depicted on the right I was clicking on the "Install Visual Studio 2008" option but nothing was happening. Absolutely nothing. There was slight blink but installation never started.

Analysis

I decided to ran Process Monitor to understand what's happening under the hood, while filtering the activity of my setup.exe:

After reviewing the output I've noticed that the install program gets mixed with the path where the installation resides (notice the space between "Partition" and "E"):

I decided to move the installation folder into something conventional like C:\Setup. After that the installation started and finished successfully.

Conclusion

Do not panic - use free Sysinternals tools to solve your problems :). Shana Tova!

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Comments

Vince

30 Sep 2008 5:23 AM

I have the same problem, but i don't find the path mix...

Can you give some details please ?
Alik Levin

30 Sep 2008 9:12 AM

Vince, what's the path to the setup.exe file?
LosManos

5 Nov 2008 9:27 AM

The setup should be the one in the root on the DVD.
LosManos

5 Nov 2008 10:34 AM

I had a similar problem where the setup.exe file just died on me.

I had downloaded the ISO from MSDN and mounted it with Microsoft Virtual CDRom Control Panel. Like AlikL said I copied the whole virtual DVD to a local folder and somefiles where corrupt. (even though the microsoft download transfer manager checks the contents after downloading)

I downloaded the DVD ISO again. Starting through the MSVirtualCDRom just killed setup.exe. I copied to a local folder and am installing right now.

happy hacking!