microsoft visual studio 2017 stuck installing

The solution is to update to Trend Micro Antivirus+ 2017, as explained in their web page Getting stuck on Windows Startup Repair after updating Trend Micro Security.

Update Nov 9, 2016: The BSOD crash APC_INDEX_MISMATCH was caused by an update to the Trend Micro Antivirus+ 2016. Anyway, my Surface laptop suffered a horrible BSOD at startup (APC_INDEX_MISMATCH or similar). I don’t know how it happened exactly: I think that I deleted an existing Hyper-V virtual machine with the Visual Studio emulator for Android that I installed days ago for a Xamarin course and that I had to uninstall because in turn I had uninstalled Xamarin because it slowed my VS 2015 startup quite noticeably and Xamarin projects took minutes to create using the New Project menu (I want to love Xamarin, so I will use Xamarin Studio on my Mac).

The other day I created a Hyper-V virtual machine on the Surface 4 Pro that I use at work to install VS “15” Preview 5. Also, it is painfully slow to install unless your computer is fast and has a SSD. Microsoft knows it and so it recommends to install betas and previews on non-production machines, that is, on virtual machines. In its current incarnation VS 2015, but also from its origins in VS.NET 2002, it is such a huge piece of software, composed of so many parts, that it’s quite fragile and not very resilient. For the most part, I love Visual Studio, but some weeks I hate it very deeply :-).

Microsoft visual studio 2017 stuck installing