Windows 7 - Problem installing Photoshop and VS2008

Hey guys! Having some problems installing the 2 programs mentioned.

First off with Photoshop CS4 I get the following:



After that it tires to install the rest of the program but can't. Just errors saying it can't install back to the desktop.


And here is the error I get with Visual Studio 2008:




With both programs I have tried various compatibility modes. Both are also given Administrative properties.

I have tried (as well) to use the trial edition of Photoshop, and have tried the free versions of visual studio.

Both programs were given to me by school, and I have tried a different CD for installation.


Also, I've ran Ad Aware, Spybot, and Avast!, with only Spybot finding a few spyware things that it removed. After removal and restart of the computer, the programs still fail to install.

I am attempting, btw, to install VS2008 onto the E:\ drive (My WD Caviar SATA drive), and did not specify where to install Photoshop.

As my computer specs say, I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 edition. Been running it since the beta, and installed it with a clean wipe of the computer.

Hope this helps in solving my problem!!!

I can't help with Photoshop, but Visual Studio, maybe.

You said you gave them Administrative properties, but did you run the installer as an administrator by right clicking? Or does it load an HTML page for the installation? I had a problem installing full VS 2010 Beta Express edition by the normal web method because Firefox was my default browser. I solved that by downloading the individual components that I wanted VC++, C#, and VB and installed them one by one.

Looks like you're not installing the express version. Does the full version setup disk load an HTML page? If it does, and you don't have IE set as your browser, enable it temporarily and try again. It might work. There is something a little weird with that installer.

Here's what I suggest:

Make sure the following things are cleared up:

Then completely uninstall all remnants of the previous installations, this including registry files, you need to go through your registry and remove all traces of those adobe programs. For help with this process, use this program:

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/c...anupscript.zip

Once you've done that, reboot and try to install again, when you do make sure to right click and hit run as administrator.

If it fails again, continue through the installation and get the error code by clicking more information at the end.

@ mellon head:

Yes I right clicked, run as administrator. I even turned the UAC off.

Also tried "one by one." did not work.

I don't think it loads in an HTML page. but I could be wrong.

@notsogray:

Tried adobe's registry cleaner with reboot. did not work.

Here is the VS2008 error log:

[04/09/10,20:29:52] Runtime Pre-requisites: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Runtime Pre-requisites. MSI returned error code 1603
[04/09/10,20:29:53] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Runtime Pre-requisites is not installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:53] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 64bit Prerequisites (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:53] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Document Explorer 2008 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system (version 3.0 Runtime) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Runtime was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Design Tools was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 For Devices was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Pocket PC was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Smartphone was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Device Emulator version 3.0 (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugger (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:54] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:55] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Crystal Reports Basic 64-Bit Runtime for Visual Studio 2008 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:55] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:55] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 Headers and Libraries (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:55] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 Win32 Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:55] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 .NET Framework Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:55] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 SDK Reference Assemblies and IntelliSense (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/09/10,20:29:55] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Publishing Wizard was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:29:58] Runtime Pre-requisites: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Runtime Pre-requisites. MSI returned error code 1603
[04/10/10,15:29:59] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Runtime Pre-requisites is not installed.
[04/10/10,15:29:59] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 64bit Prerequisites (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:29:59] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Document Explorer 2008 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:29:59] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:29:59] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:29:59] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system (version 3.0 Runtime) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Runtime was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Design Tools was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 For Devices was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Pocket PC was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Smartphone was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Device Emulator version 3.0 (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugger (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Crystal Reports Basic 64-Bit Runtime for Visual Studio 2008 was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:00] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:01] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 Headers and Libraries (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:01] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 Win32 Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:01] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 .NET Framework Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:01] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 SDK Reference Assemblies and IntelliSense (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
[04/10/10,15:30:01] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Publishing Wizard was not attempted to be installed.

Oh here is the photoshop error:

Suite Shared Configuration CS4
Error:
Error 1603. Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VC80.MFC,publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.762",processor Architecture="x86"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information.

You may need to install those listed services on their own and then attempt to install the CS4 programs.

*That refers to MS Visual C Runtime
Would it be worth a try to download the self installer of MS Visual c runtime 8.0 from Microsoft to fix corruption? This usually fixes that error for Photoshop. ( see you already tried that..hmm)

As to Visual Studio, a bad ISO will cause that corruption or corrupted .NET.

I found this. Might be something there in the links:

Aaron Stebner's WebLog : How to locate the cause of error code 1603 in a verbose MSI log file