Trying to install VS 2003

[Guest]

I have been trying for nearly a week now to install Visual Studio 2003 Pro on
my PC, XP Pro, SP2.
I have an Epson Stylus Photo RX620 all-in-one.
When I started, the installation screen appeared and said I needed to run
the prerequisites. I inserted the prerequisites disk and pressed OK. It then
proceeded to run the Epson Copy facility for my printer. This is all it ran,
if I cancelled then the whole install stopped.
I disabled antivirus, firewall and anything I could think of but to no avail.
In desperation I then uninstalled all of the printer software and eventually
managed to install VS.
I then reinstalled my printer, and now under Start - All Programs -
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 I just get Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003 Documentation and Visual Studio .NET tools. Under the tools I just get
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 command prompt.
I then tried to reinstall VS and it ran the printer copy utility again !
Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on ?
Can anyone tell me how I can install VS 2003 ?
TIA
Stuart

 

[frodo]

you are not alone, it's fairly common for it to cause issues.

check on the msdn site, there is a large area dealing w/ install issues.
for the most part, your system needs to be pretty pristine for it to go
smoothly. Many problems stem from services being disabled, it seems to
assume that no security measures have been taken to disable "questionable"
services.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply.
I think that I may have it sorted (?)
I uninstalled the copy utility, repaired VS, reinstalled the copy utility.
Everything was ok then apart from the scanner not working. I could print but
not scan. I downloaded the latest scanner drivers from Epson, installed them,
rebooted, found RX620 in Device Manager, told it to update drivers
automatically, not from the web, and that seemed to do the trick.
Seems to me a hell of a lot of rigmarole just to install VS.
Stuart

 

[Val]

What probably happened is that a registry entry pointing to the location of
"setup.exe" remained from the Epson install, and when VS went to do its
thing, that old entry ran. I don't have the particular registry key handy,
but this is a somewhat frequent occurrence.

But, you seem to have it all sorted out now, so, happy coding.

Val