I downloaded and installed VS 2013 today from DreamSpark, That took nearly 3 hours, but then after I restarted my laptop (Dell Win 8) VS has been stopped for 2.5 hrs now on the "Were preparing for first use" dialog. I can't imagine what wen wrong here. I can't leave my PC running (government Policy) and I'm afraid that if I just shut down that I will be right back at square 1 tomorrow - with 2.5++ hours of wasted time to repeat. 7:00 at night and I'm trapped at my desk. WTF???
Daniel L. Davis