RE: Error Code: 0x643 when installing Visual Studio 2005 Professio

This procedure worked perfectly for myself. I was having problems installing
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 (i.e. getting the 10 minute wait and then the install
error 0x643) on a Windows 2003 Server SP1 w/1 Gig of RAM. Thanks Paul.

"Paul" wrote:

> I am running Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Visual Studio Professional and had
> the same problem and error message that you are experiencing and this fixed
> the issue for me. I did the following:
>
> 1. Click Start, click Run, type control admintools, and then click OK.
> 2. Double-click Local Security Policy.
> 3. Click Software Restriction Policies.
>
> Note If no software restrictions are listed, right-click Software
> Restriction Policies, and then click Create New Policy.
> 4. Under Object Type, double-click Enforcement.
> 5. Click All users except local administrators, and then click OK.
>
> I then changed
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\Safer\CodeIdentifiers
> PolicyScope, and then change the setting from 0 to 1.
>
> 6. Restarted the computer.
>
>
> "tedh" wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I carried out the instructions in the KB article but
> > when I ran windows update I got the same results as previously.
> >
> > The initialization process runs successfully and the hard drive light is
> > very active for about 10 minutes afterwards and then Windows Update reports
> > that the installation failed and when reviewing the installation history and
> > clicking on the error status it reports error 0x643.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ted
> >
> > "Paul" wrote:
> >
> > > This KB Article has a fix for this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925336
> > >
> > > "tedh" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am running a standalone Windows 2003 server and Visual Studio 2005
> > > > Professional. When I try to run Windows Update to install SP1 for Visual
> > > > Studio I get the message Error Code: 0x643.
> > > >
> > > > The SP1 updates are successfully downloaded and the initialization process
> > > > runs successfully and after this the message comes up.
> > > >
> > > > Can you please advise re steps to take to resolve?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >