Windows – Can’t install Visual Studio 2012 Express on Windows 8

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I am getting following error when installing visual studio express edition on windows 8

You need to restart your computer to continue the installation

Screenshot for illustration, it's the same screen for me, but it says Express instead of Ultimate:
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I have restarted computer many times,but same problem comes each time.

Best Answer

finally I was able to solve my problem by following these steps :

  1. first Open registry (as administrator) and browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
  2. See if there is a string value "PendingFileRenameOperations" and check the value
  3. if there is one, Rename the string value "PendingFileRenameOperations" to something similar to "PendingFileRenameOperationsrename"
  4. reinstall VS2012 RC
  5. after install VS2012 RC successfully, rename back the string value

I found these from here :

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/nl-NL/vssetup/thread/942fd4f7-9085-4cbf-bb98-a58706dbb693

HTH

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