Visual studio 2017 installer won't run after extracting

Question

visual studio 2017 community.exe won\'t run after extracting to the temp.

OS: windows 10 x64bit

Setup : community version

in the temp folder bootstra

Answer 1

Nothing worked for me here however i was able to find out that there was an error with the main.js file that he couldn't find the temp folder. so i looked up the environment variables and indeed for my current user TEMP was not set resp. empty. i copied the default temp value(%SystemRoot%\TEMP) for all users to my current user TEMP variable and afterwards everything worked

Answer 2

Try to stop MSI AfterBurner. Worked for me.

Answer 3

I have lost a lot of time to solve it. By me, it was an error in machine.config, which I made 2 weeks ago. I have found it only because I have tried to uninstall the JetBrains too. And there was an error too , but with a log, where I could see it.

Answer 4

If you have Win8 you needed to update your system to 8.1 ver. and restart your computer.

Answer 5

Faced the same problem with Visual Studio 2019, but I think version doesn't matter here. This thread helped me: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/326811/vs-community-installer-not-running-working.html. The reason was in somehow corrupted .NET files.

Actions applied:

• deleted all apps with "Microsoft .NET" in name using https://support.microsoft.com/ru-ru/help/17588/windows-fix-problems-that-block-programs-being-installed-or-removed
• downloaded and installed latest version of .NET Framework Runtime (not .NET Core Runtime) from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download, in my case it was version 4.8
• restarted PC

This helped me.

Answer 6

I have been having this issue all day and MS support were not able to help. To solve my issue, I updated my video driver to the latest version (I was intentionally using an old driver as the new versions don't support my monitor resolution). The visual studio installer must use a GUI tech not supported by my older card and just fails before the installer GUI loads. The same issue happened with the older, offline installers for older versions such as VS2013.