title: Visual Studio 2010 Prerequisites x64 installation error code 1603
body: <p>Installing Visual Studio 2010, installation stops at Visual Studio 2010 Prerequisites x64</p>
  
  <p>I have: Windows 7 Ultimate x64</p>
  
  <p>I tried installing it manually and it also failed</p>
  
  <p>The message says Setup Failed and the error log says:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[08/22/12,12:31:29] 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
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit Prerequisites (x64) is not installed.
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual F# 2.0 Runtime was not attempted to be installed.
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Macro Tools was not attempted to be installed.
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates TFS Object Model (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates .NET Framework 4 Multi-Targeting Pack was not attempted to be installed.
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Web Deployment Tool (x64) was not attempted to be installed.
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 - Visual Studio 2010 Tools was not attempted to be installed.
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 was not attempted to be installed.
  [08/22/12,12:31:31] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Silverlight was not attempted to be installed.
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