I think it was the same that happened to me some time ago.
I rebooted, and made sure no other applications were started before beginning the installtion of VS2005. Then it worked.
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I think it was the same that happened to me some time ago.
I rebooted, and made sure no other applications were started before beginning the installtion of VS2005. Then it worked.