Visual studio 2017 installer won't run after extracting

Question

visual studio 2017 community.exe won\'t run after extracting to the temp.

OS: windows 10 x64bit

Setup : community version

in the temp folder bootstra

Answer 1

I had the same problem also (with a Dell labtop) and SHClark's didn't work for me. Here is what I did:

I used the command line to create a local cache of the files you need to complete an offline install

[ctrl] [shift] [enter] for the cmd prompt to run as admin

1) typed

d:\vs_community.exe --layout h:\vs2017layout --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop --includeRecommended --lang en-US

once it was done downloading to h:\vs2017layout,

2) opened h:\vs2017layout\vs_setup.exe finally got it to open after extracting but ran into this error:

The name of the file cannot be resolved by the system

so I created a link for the c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Visual Studio folder using the following command at windows cmd promt:

mklink /D "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio" "g:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio"

It worked after that. Not sure if the second error was related to the first. Hope this helps.