A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.

Running WinXP Pro SP2. Downloaded the offline/network installer for Visual C++ 2005 Express and extracted the image's files like the Manual Install instructions tell me to with ISOBuster. I get the following error when I try to run setup.exe and autorun.exe:

A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.

mischa123
Hi! I have the same problem with Visual C# and Visual WebDev!

Can the img files be corrupted
lotusvball
Thanks Bob
Oktavia
Do you still have any beta versions installed
chr1zis
This is something to do with default settings on ISOBuster... it extracts with 8.3 filenames... hence the setup program can't find them...

I didn't have the time or patience to figure out the settings, so I just used MagicISO, which extracted them fine and I now have a full install set which works OK :-)
Wasting Body
I couldn't find the ISOBuster settings to change that either, and the MagicISO trial version is crippleware and won't burn CDs over 300meg. But it was willing to extract the files properly.
Morris71
Okay, I got it working by extracting the CD image to .bin and burning it. To read on how I did this using ISOBuster, follow the link below:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=130531&SiteID=1

I didn't have any beta's installed but I did have some of Office 2000 installed (Word and Excel) as well as Visual C++ 6.0.

/Saad
Thomas Mikolajczyk
Using IsoBuster: Pick one of the image icons (open tree) other than ISO from the left pane. The right pane will show the long file names. Ctrl-A, right click, Extract to a folder. Then use whatever to get the files on CD if desired of install directly from extracted files.

I did an IsoBuster help search for 8.3 and the first hit describes the possible formats. Not sure what format I used (purple icon) but it seemed to work OK - I just use autorun and things are happening.
Namtab

I have a fresh Win XP SP2 (Brazilian Portuguese) installation with All Updates from Windows Update!

No Beta, No Office, No others applications!

Now I installed the Visual C# with the Internet Installation! Works Fine!

But the Visual WebDev will not install with the offline installation!
A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.

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