Installing Visual Studio 2010 RC1 on XP SP3
I came across an interesting issue with VS2010 RC1 on XP SP3 the other day. I'm on a customer site and it affects all of their machines. When you tried to install Visual Studio the installed would just crash and exit. I narrowed this down to Data Execution Prevention (DEP) causing the installer to exit.
The solution ended up being to disable DEP by changing the boot.ini to
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=AlwaysOff
Hope this is useful to someone
Comments
Anonymous
August 19, 2011
hi i tried your solution but still getting the same problem. i am using window xp without any service pack. i can't update to sp3. can you give me any other solution ?Anonymous
March 08, 2015
first you install directx software and then install java 2 run time