VS 2010 RC installer crashes

Question

Has anyone heard of a fix for the VS 2010 RC installer crash? I've seen it mentioned a couple times on Connect, but no word on a work-around.

Answer 1

Ok, you aren't going to believe this.

Display the language bar at the taskbar, right-click on it and choose settings. Then you remove the hand writing support from the list.

There is a bug in the RC for computers with touch screens, and I guess this is the problem.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/setupprerelease/thread/dbcdcd52-d162-4460-9920-33c9ab54b36f

The funny thing is that I don't have a touch screen.

Answer 2

I had similar trouble, the installation disk would spin up for a few seconds then power down and nothing.
I tried the above solutions but none worked, eventually found that the "Sonic DLA" utility caused problems, once uninstalled VS2010 installed perfectly.

Answer 3

I had this problem when I used Microsoft's vcdcontroltool to mount the ISO image.
using Virtual clone drive it worked perfectly.