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Asked: 2026-05-15T18:07:17+00:00

As mentioned in this thread , the Visual Studio 2008 installer sometimes silently fails

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As mentioned in this thread, the Visual Studio 2008 installer sometimes silently fails to create the Include and Lib directories that are supposed to be created in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\.

Does anybody know of a hotfix for the installer, or a reliable way to get the installation to succeed? I am installing on a Win7/64 machine that already has VS2005 and VS2010 installed. Uninstalling and reinstalling VS2008 itself does not work, nor does repairing the installation after it’s created. Can I avoid wiping the machine and starting over?

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  1. Editorial Team

    On 64-bit systems, the SDK Bin folder ends up under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A, but the Include and Lib folders end up under C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A.

    This does not explain why the Include folder would be missing entirely, but it does explain some cases where maybe it would be overlooked on a 64-bit system.

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