What is expected installation time of Visual Studio 2010 professional [closed]

Question

I have got i5-560m dell laptop with windows 7 (x64) on board with 8gb 1333 ddr ram. I started installation of VS 2010 professional with full option.... something like 12 hours ago... and it is still at 4th component on installation list. It does something because after hour... progress bar is moving.... but that crappy installation window has got problems with refreshing itself so I cannot toggle it to visibility by alt+tab or click on it.... just minimizing everything brings it to my eyes. But this is not main issue. The most confusing aspect is the process itself! It consumes already 3,9 GB of RAM with CPU load of 22%... and acts very slowly when whole system responds very quickly even though over 5gb of RAM is consumed now.

My question is... there is any magic I should do before I run this installer (which is marked as 32-bit process in task manager - why?). Sincerely I killed almost all redundant processes after 8 hours because thought some other stuff blocks it... but didn't help at all. How long it should take? Could it be somehow speed ed up?

Answer 1

It shouldn't take that long. I would say maybe half an hour max. The setup is probably hung up waiting for some resource or input from another process (I've had setup's hang for several minutes because of UAC before).

I would say do this:

• Cancel the install
• Turn off UAC
• Reboot your system
• Try the install again. Note: If it's from a DVD, try making an image of it and installing from there via Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120%.
• Don't forget to turn UAC back on.

If you have UAC turned off, try turning it on, maybe VS is looking for that.