Showing posts with label Visual Studio 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visual Studio 2010. Show all posts

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Installing MS Visual Studio 2010 Premium on Windows XP SP3

I have been attempting to install Visual Studio on my computer for several days now, but the installer repeatedly hangs whilst in progress.  I have looked for support on the issue from Microsoft and there appears to be a couple of issues handled in two service bulletins.  I have firstly updated the Windows Installer (as detailed in the first article) and then applied the registry fix mentioned in the second article.

References
Article regarding Windows Installer Freezing: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vssetup/thread/fcf7d496-d0a9-457b-8c33-54e70a2d6258
Article regarding slow installation of MS Visual Studio: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vssetup/thread/c72a9fee-07a3-4843-8da0-c7fe0c278999