Visual Studio 2017 Installation "A product matching the following parameters cannot be found"

          While installating Visual Studio 2017 Community update I've got a blue screen. The installation became corrupt and I had to reinstall. The moment I've launched the reinstall I started getting errors one after another.

• while starting the installer:
  "A product matching the following parameters cannot be found:
  channelId: VisualStudio15.Release
  productId: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Community"
• while choosing a package to install:
  "Error: Sorry installation failed. Please Try Again.

I've gone through the following steps, which helped me in resolving this issue:

• uninstalled Visual Studio (and other Visual Studio installations)
• run C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\InstallCleanup.exe -full"
• removed all the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio" folders
• removed "C:\Program Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\ folder
• restarted Windows

Installation run perfectly fine afterwards - I'm not sure thought which of these steps were required. I suppose the only thing I could have tried was not removing all Visual Studio installations before trying the other options.

UPDATE:
Also worth mentioning, I had to do a "Repair" after that first successful installation due to issues with launching "Extensions and Updates". Check, if it works for you after you've managed to install VS.