"dean.carrefour" wrote:

> I installed Visual Studio Pro 2005 from my MSDN CD's. About 3/4 of the way
> through disk two, I got the following error:
>
> Error 1911.Could not register type library for file C:\Program Files\Visual
> Studio 8\Common7\IDE\vsmacros.dll
>
> I tried 'retry' a couple of times, then 'ignore'. Setup went a little
> further and then another error:
>
> Error 1911.Could not register type library for file C:\Program Files\Visual
> Studio 8\VC\vcpackages\VCProjectEngine.dll
>
> Again, I hit 'retry' a couple of times, then 'ignore'. Setup went a little
> further and then got more errors, different filenames. I thought that maybe
> I had a bad CD, so I eventually hit 'abort'. Setup then seemed to hang up
> and not respond, so it didn't finish the rollback/uninstall. I looked in
> 'add/remove programs' but it didn't show up, so I deleted the files in the
> install directory manually.
>
> Then I downloaded the DVD .iso version from my MSDN subscription area,
> mounted the .iso and tried it again. Same errors in the same spots. This
> time I just hit 'ignore' every time and let it finish the installation. VS
> will load, but any type of error during an installation, especially one where
> I have to skip files, concerns me. I also installed the MSDN Library off the
> same mounted iso and also got a couple of 'could not read file' errors, but I
> hit retry and and it completed installation.
>
> This is on a Windows XP Pro 2003 machine that is a pretty new and clean
> installation, in fact there isn't much else installed on this machine yet.
> It has plenty of RAM. C Drive is running a little short on drive space,
> right around 2GB free, but there is plenty of space on another drive, which
> is where I was installing it to.
>
> Any idea what would cause this or how I can fix it? I really need to get