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Fail to install Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate on Lenovo S12

I really don't like my Lenovo S12 since very beginning.  And now I have one more reason:  installation of Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate HANGED while the installation applying "Visual Studio Core Features" during installation process.  I actually seen the same problem on S12 before, but back then it was Windows 8 RC and VS 2012 Beta.  Now BOTH products are RTMed, and yet I STILL have this problem of installing Visual Studio 2012.  So quite obviously I can't use S12 as development machine.  Suddenly I have no incentive to set up the machine anymore.

 In fact I tried to give it another chance.  I have the machine rebooted, it went into the VS 2012 installation again, and yet it failed once again.  So yep, S12 is dead to me.

And in fact I Had trouble uninstalling Visual Studio 2012 after that crashing problem.  This is, though, giving me a good excuse to use the new Windows 8 feature called "Remove everything and reinstall Windows".  You can find it under the PC Setting in General tab.  At first I thought it's something magical, but turns out it's just forcing you to run to installation process all over again, INCLUDING REENTER the Windows 8 Product ID, which I found it kind of lame.  Maybe the similar feature "Refresh your PC without affecting your files" will do a better, I thought.  So I did.

And ... still failed.

And ultimately I still have to do the old school way, uninstall those installed Visual STudio 2012 components one by one.  Damn piece of shit.  Wasted me so much time.

Seems like I need to stay with Win7 on S12.

posted by Deecay @ 11:58 PM