Can't install Visual Studio 2012 Professional with Blend on Windows 8 VM in VMWare

Question

I am an App developer for "line of business" apps where I work. I have been developing them using visual studio 2012 professional with blend on a windows 8 virtual machine in virtual box. Our company recently moved our datacenter to VMware and I am currently in the process of recreating my development environment as a VM in VMware. The issue is every time I try to install visual studio it hangs at Applying MS Visual C++ compilers

When I look at the resource monitor to see what process is blocking it, it looks like the installer is waiting on dwm.exe.

I have left this machine running for more than 24 hours and it is still at the same amount of progress. I am using the local administrator account to do the install and have disabled windows defender (which is the only virus protection I have on her). I have also tried the install with the O.S. up to date and with the O.S. freshly installed with no updates. Please help.

Answer 1

Maybe kill dwm.exe? Is your Windows 8 install completely updated?

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Answer 2

I did try that and it was still blocking the installer.

Answer 3

I figured it out. I had VMTools installed before installing visual studio. I uninstalled VMTools and install visual studio first. Then installed VMTools and now visual studio is installed.