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 this problem. Turned out there was an old, failed installation on the drive. I had to go to Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs and remove Visual Studio Install Tool. After that the installer worked fine.