title: Setup Failed: Visual Studio 2010 Pro installation
body: <p>Trying to install VS2010Pro on Windows 7 (64bit) and i also checked all system requirements for the same.</p>
  
  <p><strong>ERROR:</strong></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FGla4.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p><strong>VIEW ERROR LOG:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>[05/15/12,10:48:22] Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64): [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64). MSI returned error code 1603
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64) is not installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual F# 2.0 Runtime was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates TFS Object Model (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates .NET Framework 4 Multi-Targeting Pack was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 - Visual Studio 2010 Tools was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Silverlight 3 SDK was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Office Developer Tools (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Dotfuscator Software Services - Community Edition was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Crystal Reports templates for Visual Studio 2010 was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 ENU was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Services for ADO.NET v2.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Framework Services v1.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Sync Framework SDK v1.0 (x64) ENU was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates VC 10.0 Designtime (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Publishing Wizard 1.4 was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Objects was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Objects (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Service Pack 1 (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier Application Framework was not attempted to be installed.
  [05/15/12,10:48:22] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier Application Project was not attempted to be installed.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>REF LINKS</strong>
  1. <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/c1f520fd-1966-4927-a7b3-7100747b19aa/" rel="noreferrer">MSDN</a>
  2. <a href="http://ishaalan.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/error-installation-failed-for-component-microsoft-visual-studio-2010-64bit-prerequisites/" rel="noreferrer">BLOG</a> (tried)</p>
  
  <p>have also asked question in <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vssetup/thread/b3bbf748-acd6-40c7-93e1-1455bf13aaba" rel="noreferrer">MSDN</a> forum.</p>
  
  <p>Do i have any better solutions to <strong>trouble shoot this problem</strong> other than re installing the OS ?</p>