Fixing Visual Studio 2005 SP1 requires an update for Windows Vista

Just like some other programs, Visual Studio 2005 also has some compatibilities issues with Windows Vista, so it is very much obvious to have some error like this. After installing the Visual Studio 2005, when you start it the first time, it will not run and asks you the update for Windows Vista because the particular Visual Studio is SP1 and we will need a SP1 update for the Vista.

First and obvious thing to do is to download the update which can easily be found from the Microsoft site. And the link is

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=90e2942d-3ad1-4873-a2ee-4acc0aace5b6&displaylang=en

After downloading the update file, you will have to install it. And now you can run your Visual Studio without any problem.

But if you get any other error message which may happen sometimes. You should not worry. The error message which usually comes after installing the update is that it will prompt you to run the program as an Administrator as it is recommended by the program.

You can just uncheck the box saying Always show this message so it wont appear again, this might solve your problem too. If not then you have to use your administrator account to

So you can just open it as the Administrator which can be done by making your shortcut to always run in Administrator (which can be done by going into the Advanced properties of the shortcut and select the first option saying Run as administrator). In this way you may run the program but probably some error will occur and increase your problem.

In other case you just can run the program as a normal user and it will not prompt you the administrator error. If the errors appears, just run it as an administrator.

Visual Studio 2005 is not very compatible with Windows Vista so it may give some errors and create some problems but that is life actually.