

You can help remedy long install times by installing silently.

If you haven’t yet installed VS 2005 SP1, I recommend you first read through the known issues in order to prevent some issues, such as long install times. You must also first install Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 if you haven’t already, or you’ll get an error that indicates the patch does not apply to any products on your machine. The patch wrapper is manifested to automatically prompt for elevation. Note that you do not have to right-click and select “Run as administrator” for this release.

You should first uninstall the beta update for Vista. This patch is available for all supported languages of Visual Studio 2005, unlike the beta which was available in English and Japanese. As Aaron notes, the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista is available on the download center.
