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mattrick
mattrick

Reputation: 3910

Visual Studio Installer - The system cannot find the file specified

Whenever I try to launch the Visual Studio 2015 installer, I immediately get the following error message:

Error

I've tried redownloading the installer, but for the life of me I can't seem to get it to install. Would anybody know how to fix this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5377

Answers (2)

Eric Boumendil
Eric Boumendil

Reputation: 2388

In my case, it was that the user temp directory was inacessible due to a disk issue (my temp dir was on a small dedicated SSD disk).

Without access to temp dir, VS crashes on startup and installers won't run.

I had to change my temp dir (from environment variables) and VS started again.

Upvotes: 0

George Netu
George Netu

Reputation: 2832

  • My first suggestion would be to try and create a new user, download the installer again and see if it works;
  • As mentioned in the comments, Process Monitor may help diagnose your problem;
  • Your antivirus may consider the installer a false positive, so you may want to temporary disable it before you download the installer again;
  • Make sure your installer is the real one. Here is the link for the Community version;
  • There is also the possibility that the disk is failing. Try running chkdsk on your drive.

EDIT: The problem seemed to be about the web installer, try grabbing the vs2015.com_enu.iso file available here.

Upvotes: 1

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