setup.exe -> Install VS 2010 does not do anything

when I double click setup.exe, then click on the Install VS 2010 link, nothing happens. I've tried running as administrator, to 开发者_运维问答no avail.

this means I have VS 2010 but I can't use it fml. Please help!

thanks.

It looks like there have been a couple of similar issues discussed on the MSDN forums regarding difficulties installing VS 2010. Here's a few things I came up with to try:

• If you have handwriting support turned on, try disabling it. Show the language bar on the taskbar, right-click on it, and choose Settings," then remove handwriting support from the list.

• One poster suggested running "setup.exe /q /full". This will do an unattended install of the full package.

• Do you have Windows Search turned on? Try turning it off, at least during the install (open Services by typing "services.msc" in the Run dialog, find Windows Search in the list of services, and click Stop.

• If you have been trying to run the setup program from an ISO, copy the setup files to a folder on your hard drive and run setup from there.

When you say "nothing happens," is there any disk activity reading from the installation source media? I have never seen this problem before and I've installed VS too many times to count.

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Before you run VS2010 Setp.exe, run Process Monitor. Now, when you run setup.exe, it Process Monitor will tell you exactly what it is doing. See if there is any activity. You should also monitor the status and see if there are any issues.

I was having a similar problem and found the following entry in the Windows Application Event Log:

Access to C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\setup.exe has been restricted by your Administrator by location with policy rule {1f05d944-2d64-4ad8-a99d-c1f4aac13cac} placed on path C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\\*.exe

So I searched the registry for the guid referenced in the message and found it under HKLM_SOFTWARE_Policies_Microsoft_Windows_safer_codeidentifiers_0_Path_{guid}

At this location there is a ValueName of ItemData with the Value of %LocalAppData%\Temp\\*.exe

I changed this to be %LocalAppData%\Temp1\\*.exe. Since the Temp1 folder doesn't exist the policy had no effect. The setup program was able to completely finish.