Hi, I have win7 64 and its been running great since august. But last week i had trouble installing 3ds max 2010 64, maya 2011 64 and mudbox 2011. I had problems during the install where the progress bar would stop (at the c++ redis 2005/08 32/64 installs) i eventually got around this and things were pleasant for a while. But now im trying to install visual studio 2008, same thing happens, the progress bar stops and the processes for setup just dont do anything. I have tried multiple times and each time it stops at different places. This is very frustrating. Also i tried to install office 2007 and the same thing happens. My computer is very clean and all software is legit. I dont understand what is going on, its very frustrating. Any ideas? Thanks
Maybe you should check what software dependencies VS2008 and Office 2007 has. They usually install everything that they need themselves, but maybe this time around they need a nudge in the right direction. Do you also have the latest OS upgrades?
What do you mean by OS upgrades? do you mean updates? Well if thats the case then yes everything is up to date. Funny enough when the office install failed, windows update had a patch install for office sp1 but office wasnt installed and the patch only downloaded and wouldnt install for obvious reasons. Also the patch was only 16mb or so in size, i believe sp1 is alot bigger than that. I cant find any software dependences for this software. .net frame work is for vs but it installs with vs, but my version of windows already has that built in so it meets the requirements
Yes, the "upgrades" is my bad. Updates. Okay, so the next thing you could do is to revise all your installed programs. Remove everything that you don't use (maybe one of them f*cked up all of this - has happened to me on a couple of occasions) and also all the heavy stuff (backup data/settings beforehand, boviously) + the VC redist packages as well. Maybe take CCLeaner to clean out the registry after this. Then, reinstall all the stuff you need. This is short of reinstalling windows, but the best thing I can think of.
