I had the same problem though instead of forcing me to install into “c:\program Files” it forced me to install to the directory which I used for the Visual Studio RC. After using Process Monitor and the setup’s logfile I was able to find a registry key that needed to be deleted.
The key was located at
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-21-776561741-789336058-725345543-318838\Components\31F687BD8A467D54C830E018D99F7F3B
The SID will most likely be different for other systems yet you might be able to find the last string (31F687BD8A467D54C830E018D99F7F3B)
In order to find the key I did the following:
- Downloaded ProcessMonitor from Sysinternals
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Started Processmonitor with filter
Image Path ends with vs_premium.exe
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Started vs_premium.exe
- Closed the setup
- Waited until Processmonitor didn’t fetch anymore events
- Opened the newest dd_vs_premium_.log file from %TEMP%
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Searched for something and found
Condition ‘VS_Install_path_KeyExists’ evaluated to false. (i guess it will evaluate to true on affected systems. I tried this on a clean windows installation)
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One line above it said
Registry key not found. Key =
‘SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7’ -
Searched for
Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7
in Processmonitor
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A few lines down ProcessMonitor shows me the key I had to delete