Hi, i recently purchased the academic version of visual studio.net 2003. When
i went to install the program, and clicked number 2 (install visual studio)
the dialog simply closed and the program did not install. I read on the
internet that maybe some of my firewall/virus programs could be blocking it,
so i unistalled my norton systemworks, internet security, and even my
microsoft antispyware to be sure. I restarted my machine without loading any
startup items and only the necessary windows services and the install still
crashes. please help!

"Chrismg" <Chrismg (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

Please provide more details. What OS and patch level are you using? Was
there an error message before the install "crashed"? If so, please quote the
message. Are you sure your system is 100% virus/trojan/malware/etc. - free?
Not trying to give you a hard time here, but the more information you
provide, the better the odds of a useful response.

--
Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.

Chris,
Call Microsoft if you've purchased the software you should be intitled to
support and it should install corectly.

Good Luck
DWS


"Chrismg" wrote:

Hi.I'm running Windows XP pro with Service pack 2. The installation did not
give me an error message, the installation window simply dissappeared. Also,
I am fairly confident in the health of my system ( I run Norton Antivirus,
Norton Internet Security, and Microsoft Anti-Spyware often). Any suggestions
would be appreciated. thanks!

I had a similar problem. I had to load the two installation cd's onto a
folder on my c drive and install from there. It actually worked.
Nick


"Chrismg" wrote:

Hey i tried that and had no luck, thanks for the idea though.

"Nick" wrote: