Problems Installing VS 2005 on vista Part 1
| Labels: Visual Studio 2005 | |Lately appear a lot of problems with developers trying to install visual studio 2005 on Windows Vista, i will disscus some of these problems and the way to solve them.
Problem 1:
When you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 on a computer that is running Windows Vista, you may receive a message that resembles the following:
"To complete the installation, you must have Windows XP SP2 installed on the computer."
This Problem happen due to compatibility mode in windows vista to solve this follow these steps:
1.Right-click the Setup.exe file, and then click Properties.
2.Click the Compatibility tab, click Show settings for all users, and then click Continue.
3.In the Compatibility mode area, click to clear the Run the program in compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 2) check box, and then click OK.
4.Run the Setup.exe file again.
