Hi,
This problem has wasted the last two days of my life and making me go crazy......maybe someone here can help!!! I've tried all the solutions I've been able to find on the web.

I'm trying to install Visual Studio .NET Pro 2003 on my Windows XP computer and each time.. it stops with a 1935 error (on what seems like a registry key write of - Webrowser package). The specific error it gives is:

[10/30/04,19:00:01] Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English: [2] ERROR: Error 1935.An error occured during the installation of assembly component {8C096959-853C-4637-BC9B-E3C610B1A71F}. HRESULT: -2146234299.

From another error log:
[10/30/04,19:00:01] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage: Error 1935.An error occured during the installation of assembly component {8C096959-853C-4637-BC9B-E3C610B1A71F}. HRESULT: -2146234299.
[10/30/04,19:00:01] Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ERROR: Error 1935.An error occured during the installation of assembly component {8C096959-853C-4637-BC9B-E3C610B1A71F}. HRESULT: -2146234299.
[10/30/04,19:00:02] Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ACTION FAILURE: Action ended 19:00:02: InstallFinalize. Return value 3. See MSI log for details.
[10/30/04,19:02:27] Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ERROR processed; exception was thrown for retail build
Developer Comment: Action Start message out of order
Build Time: Thu Feb 15 17:56:18 2001
HRESULT: -2147467259
[10/30/04,19:07:38] Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ERROR processed; exception was thrown for retail build
Developer Comment: Action Start message out of order
Build Time: Thu Feb 15 17:56:18 2001
HRESULT: -2147467259
[10/30/04,19:08:03] Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ACTION FAILURE: Action ended 19:08:03: INSTALL. Return value 3. See MSI log for details.
[10/30/04,19:08:21] Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English: MsiInstallProduct return code: 1603.
[10/30/04,19:08:21] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty
[10/30/04,19:08:21] setup.exe: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper()
[10/30/04,19:08:21] setup.exe: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()

This is on XP Pro with no service packs and no other programs installed. Note that the prerequisites install fine (.net Framwork 1.1 and the other prerequisites don't have any problems) I've tried everything I can think of including:

1. DId a clean boot (using msconfig), and only enabled RPC and WIndows INstaller service... still get same error. I also did this from the local administrators account.
I had NO other programs running......


2. I then reformated the hardrive and tried it with SP1 and reformatted and tried it with service pack 2.

3. I've also tried with a few other settings (like renaming mscoree.dll), but I've done so many I can't remember everyone. Must have reformatted 5 times at least.

PLease tell me there is a known solution to this???
I'm getting ready to give up on .NET and go back to 6.0.

Thanks,
David