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Visual Studio 2008 setup hangs while loading installation components

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Today when I was working with one of my client, I came across this situation. I tried stopping the Anti Virus Services but nothing helped.

Then I thought of deleting the Temporary Folder by going to Start > Run > %Temp% > Ok . I was not able to delete the temporary files there in that folder

Then I decided to recreate the Temp Folder, Follow the below instruction:

Operating System: Windows Vista

1. Right Click My Computers

2. Click Properties

3. Click Advance System Settings

4. Go to Advance Tab and Click Environment Variables

5. Select Temp > Edit and Copy %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp

6. Click Ok and Exit the Screen

7. Suggestion to Restart the Computer

8. Go to Environment Variables again following 1 to 4 Steps

9. Select Temp > Edit and Paste %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp

10. Click OK and Exit

11. Now try using Visual Studio 2008 it will install

This above steps I mentioned from one of the scenario and it might be different in some cases, In case of such issues feel free to get back to me at any point of time.

ProcessMonitor.zip

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    I am not installing Visual Studio but using Vista and somehow not able to delete any files from the Temp folder. Temp folder size is almost 720MB now. Is it worth trying the above steps in my situation. Thanks in advance

  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2008
    Hi Ethan, Sorry for the late reply. Yes you can follow the steps delete the Temp folder and create it again.Let me know in case you have any other question. Regards Joy

  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2011
    Hi, the result s the same. I've deleted %temp% but result is the same. As I see from ProcessMonitor window, new instances of the process setup.exe constantly started and this never stopped. This, of cause, leads to system resources leak and stop working of windows in a while. This is occurred while all widows installations (VS2010 as well).