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Visual Studio Installation - Package Management Initialization Failed

Mutthuluru Yashwanth Sai 0 Reputation points
2026-06-12T09:19:56.8933333+00:00

After installing Visual Studio, I received an error after the installation.
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Something went wrong with the install.

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Product finalizer failed to execute.
    Search URL
        https://aka.ms/VSSetupErrorReports?q=PackageId=Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Community;PackageAction=Finalize;ReturnCode=1
    Details
        Command executed: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\18\Community\common7\ide\vsfinalizer.exe" -ResponseFilePath "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\_Instances\9f74ac42\ResponseFiles\he4qtthu.txt"
        Return code: 1
        Return code details: Incorrect function.
    Log
        C:\Users\mutthulu\AppData\Local\Temp\dd_setup_20260612143420_134_Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Community.log

Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Other
Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Other

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