Error 25015 while installing .NET Framework 2.0-Collection of common programming errors

Hi,

I have a problem getting NetFX 2.0 installed.

While installing the framework with Elevated Rights I get :

Error 25015: Failed to install assembly ‘C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.VisualBasic.Vsa.dll’ because of a system eror: Access is denied.

If I give the user admin rights the installation works fine.

Is there a way to get around the admin rights, I really dont want to get it to all 2000 users on our site 🙂

/// Johan

91 Answers

Hi,

I got the same problem while I was installing it. I went to the

“C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework”

directory and deleted the

“v2.050727”

folder. Afterwards I just reinstalled it and no problem anymore. Hope this will also work in your case

Ciao

Landero

You need to be an admin to install the framework.

If you’re deploying the framework via SMS or active directory, follow the steps in the admin deployment guide.

The admin gude is in the \setup folder of VS.  It’s called adminreadme.htm

Sorry, But I don’t see how that is helpful.

Unless I got a bad link.

I am an administrator, and I don’t have the service referenced installed.  I do have Symantec Anti-virus.

I could use any help.

Thanks, Brian

Error 25015. Failed to install assembly ‘C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.050727\Microsoft.VisualBasic.Vsa.dll’because of system error: 0x80131107.  

Can somebody help? please I’m desperate !

Error 25015. Failed to install assembly ‘C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.050727\Microsoft.VisualBasic.Vsa.dll’because of system error: 0x80131107.  

Can somebody help? please I’m desperate ! .  You may contact me at [email protected]

Hey Whats up im Luis and i cant understand how to solve this problem. please can someone help me?

Hi,

I got the same problem while I was installing it. I went to the

“C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework”

directory and deleted the

“v2.050727”

folder. Afterwards I just reinstalled it and no problem anymore. Hope this will also work in your case

Ciao

Landero

B.I.N.G.O

Thank you landero 2 weeks of trying to figuer it out and boom install niceley

thank you so much

Regards jam201984

Grazie Landero! senza il tuo utilissimo consiglio non sarei mai riuscita a d installare Autocad!

Grazie infinitamente!

ero arrivata alla frutta ma per fortuna ho incontrato il tuo messaggio!

Thank you!

Gogo

could someone say if, after trying my solution, he or she is still coping with the same problem?

or is it solved? If not I will try to find an other solution.

Thanks

Landero

Download it here: http://astebner.sts.winisp.net/Tools/dotnetfx_cleanup_tool.zip

Thank you!  I have been fighting this for two days. Neither Microsoft support nor Dell could help me. Thank you!

Go to

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework             

and then delete this file v2.0.50727 and the try the intall again it helped for me

I found this post whilst looking for the reason .NET 2.0 Framework was failing to install.

All I did to make it work was temporarily disable my antivirus for the install duration – and it worked fine!  Not the most elegant solution, I agree, but it seems to work – unusual as MS usually put something in at the start regarding disabling AV software if you’re required to do so.

Ah well – installed and the world is a happy place once more!

Really thanks,Landero!

I had fixed the same problem.

Thanks for saving me hours and not being angry at my dogs.

Thanks, Landero!

That took care of the problem.

oh realy you fixed the problem right i knew the awnser all ready to your fix anit to hard

What do you mean, “Afterwards I just reinstalled it….”?  I need directions on “reinstalling” it.

Hi Mordido,

“I got the same problem while I was installing it. I went to the

“C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework”

directory and deleted the

“v2.050727”

folder. Afterwards I just reinstalled it and no problem anymore.

with that “afterwards….” i meant that you just rerun your setup, or how should i call it… just run the  ‘.net Framework 2.0’ setup if you got that one in a separate file. if not you can always download it (ill give you the link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5 (english file but you can switch the language)

Hope this will help you to fix your problem

Ciao

landero

HEY THERE RULEZ!

THANK U SO MUCH FOR YOUR ADVICE AND LINK FOR THE CLEAN UP TOOL!!

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO INSTALL 4OD FOR MONTHS NOW AND AT THE LAST MOINUTE IT STOPPING DUE TO ERROR 25015 FAILURE TO INSTALL NET. FRAMEWORK ETC ETC!!

I FOLLOWED UR ADVICE AND LINK AND INSTALLED IT SUCESSFULLY!!

THANK U !

Worked tremendously.  It was driving me crazy, the drivers and software for my ATI 1950Pro graphics card would not install properly and gave numerous errors because of this simple problem.

Thank you so very much for finding the solution, I cannot begin to express how much I appreciate it.

Cheers,

Oth

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Landero…  You are the man! That’s the ticket.  Simple but effective solution

Don Heinsen

I tried the suggestions of Landero and any combination thereof for a while, sure I have some corupted files here and there from my last hdd crash. I tried:

Erasing:  C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

Clean Up: dotnetfx_cleanup_tool

Running dotnetfx from a C:\temp directory

Erasing the content of one of my \TEMP directories 

Just before giving up I tried the suggestion of Aaron Stebner Solving setup errors by using the SubInACL tool to repair file and registry permissions. I downloaded the Windows Resource Kit named SubInACL, see

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/solving-setup-errors-by-using-the-subinacl-tool-to-repair-file-and-registry-permissions.aspx

So I ran: SubInAcl, erased: \Framework\v2.0.50727, ran: dotnetfx_cleanup_tool, finally: dotnetfx from the C:\temp and it worked. Thanks for keeping the tread alive, owe you a pizza all of your!

My Error 25015 said “device not ready”, before I ran the cleanup tool.  Now Framework 2.0 is installed.  Thanks, Rulez.

Thank you very much Lanredo, this was the solution to the problem.

Thanks Landero,

  It worked beautifully.  I need to install the updates now

omg i struggled with this for the last 48 hours after using hp pc system recovery to restore my computer to its original factory settings and drivers. after this i reupdated windows xp through windows update. then i downloaded dotnerframe work 2.0 because i needed to install my ati hd2600xt agp card but it didn’t want to. to many errors. googled it and finally came across with Landero’s solution. thanx

Hi,

I got the same problem while I was installing it. I went to the

“C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework”

directory and deleted the

“v2.050727”

folder. Afterwards I just reinstalled it and no problem anymore. Hope this will also work in your case

Ciao

Landero

This worked perfect for me thank you

Just a thanks to Lando…this was THE answer

Hi Landero,

same problem but cannot delete v2.0.50727

popup says cannot delete TBD1E tmp  …access is denied. Make sure sidc is not full or write protected or currently in use.

Does it make any difference if NET framework 1.1 is deleted before u start or after, or don’t u delete it t all.

 It won’t let me delete it anyway.

hope u will reply

 kind regards

demondee

deleted the

“v2.050727”

Thanks! That fixed my problem!   I wasted many hours before I noticed your post!

-Don-

After hours of trying things to fix this problem with no luck, I found this forum and a simple little delet and reinstall fixed the problem.

Thanks

hi

I had the same problem like you, And I TRIED EVERYTHING TO GET IT SORTED BUT NOTHING THEN I TRIED WHAT YOU SAID AND IT WORKED I CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH,

got the same problem while I was installing it. I went to the

“C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework”

directory and deleted the

“v2.050727”

THANKS SWEETLUSH

HI I HA THE SAME PROBLEM AND COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING THAT WORKED AND THEN I TRIED WHAT YOU SAID ANDI went to the

“C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework”

directory and deleted the

“v2.050727”

AND THEN REINSTALLED IT. AND IT WORKED FIRST TIME I DONT KNOW HOW TO THANK YOU ENOUGH.

THANKS THANKS THANKS

SWEETLUSH I GIVE YOU 5***************************

I have been struggling with this problem for days.  I tried several other recommendations.  This was the first that worked.  Thanks!!!!!

In the end i tried a rollback (system restore) to a previous state BEFORE i installed dotnet. This worked. There is some software i had to reinstall because of the rollback, but this still is a lot better than installing xp again.

Maybe this solution is to obvious so no one mentioned it before, but it saved me al lot of trouble.cheers,G.

ps making images of your configuration more often is also a good idea (in retrospect)

I got the same error (Error 25015. Failed to install assembly ‘C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.050727\Microsoft.VisualBasic.Vsa.dll’because of system error: 0x80131107) when installing 2.0 .NET framework.

Deleting the directory v2.050727 helped me solve the problem. Thank you for that great suggestion.

Thank you Landero. For some reason, I ran into this problem when trying to load TurboTax, which tried to install .NET. It was great to find this easy solution.

I used the link you provided and was then able to download .net framwork 2.0 without any problems.

Thanks!!!

Kathy

Hey Landero… I tried your method and it worked on solving the error. BUT BEFORE I SAY THIS NO-ONE LAUGH, the second i did that and retried installation, it switched from one error to the next, first the error 0x80131107 then access is denied… When i saw that i tried all other methods, the one by aaron failed. I don’t know why, instead of the software giving me elevated rights nothing happened. Cleanup tool did nothing, same goes for MSCONFIG method, and all the other numerous things. I even disable antivirus but to no luck. If there is anyone ot there who can fix my problem, you deserve to own microsoft, their software is good but too many errors.

Thanks a million.

Hey!
After three hours of misery I did this and it worked! YAHOO! THANK YOU, THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Aman Dass

This did not work on my system. I am running Windows XP media center.

This is for Vista only

Thank you,worked perfectly.

You are the man. Following your steps fixed it for me.

Jose

Wendy

If ALL above fails then rename :c/windows/assembly. Rename it to something like Assembly_ and then the installation will work!

i have been trying for weeks now to get the net frame work to install,i have tried every suggestion in these forums and nothing works i can install the net frameworks up until net framework 2 then it won’t install any more i am running windows xp service pack 3, i was thing should i remove the service pack 3 and reinstall it as i think i might have some files missing somewhere

So, have you have tried to rename the :c/windows/assembly map to something different and then installing .net framwork 2.0?

no i haven’t tried that yet ,how do you do that

i just done a search for the :c/windows/assembly file and it came up as an invalid file

The map is called assembly and not “c/windows/assembly”, that is the whole path.

So:

1. Open “this compuer”/”computer”

2. Open C drive

3. Open “windows” map

4. Rename the folder called Assembly to another name.

5. Install .net framework 2.0

Ex.

Before: :c/windows/assembly

After: :c/windows/oldassembly

Thank you landero, it worked perfectly!!

thanks again,

 Regards drk9luver

Thank you so much this fixed my problem trying to install the Kodak 5250 all in one printer.  Now works a treat. thanks..

Landero, I’m glad that your post was still here after all this time…  I was getting the 0x80131107 error when trying to install .NET Framework 2.0…

I found your post here and, after doing everything else that everyone said to do, I followed your instructions and Poof…  I now have .NET Framework 2.0…

I hope they leave your post here till the ink fades away….lol

You were a great help and I for one, REALLY appreciate your post and you….  Thanks…..

Btw, if it makes any difference, I was installing the 32 bit dotnetfx.exe on my XP.

This worked for me too.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! it worked better then i thought! points to u man!!!!

Kobbe, you are great! I tried to fix the problem for several days and nothing, but u help me to fix it! 

P.S. I had a massege “Error 25015.Failed to install assembly ‘C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Vsa.dll’ because of system error: The system cannot find the path specified”

Thank you million times!

Your solution worked. Thanks!!!!

Thank you very much Landero.

Never taught it would work.

Thank you, Landero. I followed your advice and was able to successfully complete the installation.

Cheers,

Jagibby1

Warning, this is a bit drastic: I wouldn’t be surprised if that broke any .net apps you have so you would have to reinstall etc.

Landero,

Don’t know if ur still out there but a million thanks for your suggestion!

Kelly

Thanks Landero,

After so many years I was able to find your post and it worked perfectly!

After 2 months of trial and error, blogs, support pages and prayer,  this is the only thing that worked.

Thank you for giving me my life back!

It was resolved for me after I disabled Anti Virus software and retried installation.

Vlad

Thank YOU   Thank YOU!!!!  This worked for me – I am having problems with installing NET. 3.5 I wonder if I delete that folder if it will help with that as well.  I may just give it a try!!!

Landero,

I had the same problem and went to a website that said to uninstall and reinstall all net framework applications.  I uninstalled 4, 3.5, 3, and 2 and when I followed your suggestion all the applications were still listed in the framework folder.  I deleted 2.0 and tried reinstalling it and it worked.

Thanks Landero. I went to  “C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework” and deletedthe folder ‘v2.0.50727’ (which holds dot.net 2 data) – after this it installed no problem. Thanks