Error 0x80004003 during VS 2017 RC install

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I'm running Windows 10, no pending updates, I've run sfc /scan now and DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth neither of which reported issues. I've tried installing enterprise, professional and community and built the local installer with the --layout flag for professional all of which produce the same error. I have also tried uninstalling visual studio 2015 enterprise and a variety of other visual studio bits, resharper and ncrunch.

[3604:0011][2016-11-19T11:06:58] Error 0x80004003: 
   0x80004003 at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Cache.InstanceRepository.GetInstance()
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Cache.CacheRepository.<GetInstances>d__25.MoveNext()
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.FirstOrDefault[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 predicate)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.VerifyInstallationPath(IServiceProvider services, String installationPath, IInstance instance, IQuery query)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.Install(Product product, String destination, CancellationToken token)Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

score 47 · Accepted Answer · edited May 28 '17 at 10:55

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After many times of trying to install the new preview, I at last managed to set it down in my computer. Here I share what I have done.

First you must uninstall the installed Microsoft Visual Studio Installer from the Control Panel — Programms–Uninstall Or Modify Programs

Then delete the installed files related to the preview version of VisualStudio15 in the following folders:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio

%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio

Download and install the vs_Enterprise.exe

When complete downloading files needed, you can install them, then you see the visual studio IDE

edited May 28 '17 at 10:55

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answered Nov 20 '16 at 02:07

ta.speot.is

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I wasn't clearing AppData or ProgramData during my previous attempts. I had to also delete the packages and setup folders from AppData/../VisualStudio, but it's working now. Thanks! – Miniver Cheevy Nov 20 '16 at 02:23
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I also had to delete C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\ _Instances – vivainio Dec 13 '16 at 16:38
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Thanks! Works for me! – equiman Jan 11 '17 at 03:50
That worked for me too! @vivainio's comment should be included in the post too, I had to delete that folder to it work for me. – Jack Apr 02 '17 at 20:06
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You don't know how many lives you saved with this answer. Thanks. – Vítor Oliveira May 16 '17 at 19:58

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 23 '17 at 23:00

I've also had this problem, but I noticed that if you go to %programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe and run that (in command prompt as Admin with -full) and then reinstall, everything works great. If you already removed that directory you can just launch the installer but instead of choose products you just close it again, and then you can go to folder above and run the InstallCleanup.exe -full. In my case this happened when my computer died in the middle of the upgrade.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 29 '17 at 20:29

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1) uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio from the Control Panel
2) delete C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
3) delete C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Visual Studio\Setup
4) delete C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Visual Studio\Packages

answered May 29 '17 at 20:29

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This was the only thing that worked for me in the end. A complete uninstall and reinstall. – GrahamJ Apr 09 '18 at 12:20

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