Windows 7 SDK installation failure

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I seem to be completely unable to install the Windows 7 SDK onto my machine  and the only solution I ve found on the web is to make a swathe of registry changes  I ve done this - still no success  This is the reported error   A problem occurred while installing selected Windows SDK components  Installation of the  quot Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 quot  product has reported the following error  Please refer to Samples Setup HTML ConfigDetails htm document for further information  Please attempt to resolve the problem and then start Windows SDK setup again  If you continue to have problems with this issue  please visit the SDK team support page at http   go microsoft com fwlink  LinkId 130245  Click the View Log button to review the installation log  To exit  click Finish   There is no Samples directory to refer too  and the SDK support team don t appear to live there any longer  How do I fix this problem

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You should really check the log  It seems that quite a few components can cause the Windows SDK installer to fail to install with this useless error message  For instance it could be the Visual C   Redistributable Package as mentioned there

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I have had this same problem with the x64 version installation  It relates  in my case at least  to the dexplore exe installation  I uninstalled dexplore  reinstalled it  did a heap of registry changes  etc  as per various blogs and SDKs all to no avail  What finally fixed it for me was editing this registry key   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Microsoft Windows Installer DisableBrowse   I changed the value to 0  Once the SDK had installed  quite happily this time  I set the value back to 1   What alerted me to the possible error was the following in the SDK setup log   12 19 42 PM Friday  8 January 2010  SFX C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 0 Setup SFX dexplore exe installation started with log file C  TEMP Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 dd2d9383-116d-441f-85b3-7c16aeb3568e SFX log 12 19 47 PM Friday  8 January 2010  C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 0 Setup SFX dexplore exe installation failed with return code 1625   And this in the dexplore installation logfile   MSI  s   E4 7C   12 19 46 680   Machine policy value  DisableBrowse  is 1 MSI  s   E4 7C   12 19 46 680   Adding new sources is not allowed  MSI  s   E4 7C   12 19 46 680   Warning  rejected attempt to add new source  c  eb66d60e4283bfc2986755fa    product   6753B40C-0FBD-3BED-8A9D-0ACAC2DCD85D   MSI  s   E4 7C   12 19 46 680   MSI LUA  Elevation prompt disabled for silent installs MSI  s   E4 7C   12 19 46 680   Note  1  1729  MSI  s   E4 7C   12 19 46 680   Product  Microsoft Document Explorer 2008 -- Configuration failed    I hope this is of assistance in your situation

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I installed Visual Studio 2012 and installed Visual Studio 2010 service package 1 and tried installing the SDK again  and it worked  I don t know which of them solved the problem

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I d like to add that removing the Visual C   2012 Redistributable may be necessary  too  I removed both the Visual C   2012 Redistributable x84 and x64 and then my installation worked

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I m having the same error as this  Windows 7 SDK installation failure      After finding out  I ve got the solution   It may also happen that the SDK installation runs through with a  success  message at the end  but nothing was actually installed  The only way to really find out whether the SDK was installed is to check the respective directory  C Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 1 or C Files  x 86  SDKs Windows v7 1  If the subdirectory  v 7 1  was created and has some content  the SDK was installed  The solution for this problem is the same as for the issue with the error message  Uninstall Microsoft Visual C   2010 Redistributable  see below    Resolution  Uninstall Microsoft Visual C   2010 Redistributable installations prior to Windows SDK installation   Before the installation  I had the following Microsoft Visual C   2010 Redistributable installations  Note that the x 64 version is updated    Microsoft Visual C   2010 Redistributable x 64-Microsoft Corporation 10 0 40219 15 2 MB 10 0 40219 Microsoft Visual C   2010 Redistributable-x 86 10 0 30319 Microsoft Corporation 11 0 MB 10 0 30319

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Microsoft now has a knowledge base article called Windows SDK Fails to Install with Return Code 5100 that describes this problem and its fix      This issue occurs when you install the Windows 7 SDK on a computer that has a newer version of the Visual C   2010 Redistributable installed   The Windows 7 SDK installs version 10 0 30319 of the Visual C   2010 Redistributable     The error message is located in the log file  which can be opened through the View Log button in the installer  Otherwise  it can be found here   userprofile  AppData Local Temp  or  temp   The log file is most likely called SDKSetup 7 xxxxx log   Solution  Uninstall any existing Visual C   2010 redistributable   I just had this problem  and I looked at the solution at Ctrl F5  Fix Problem Installing Windows SDK for Windows 7  but it didn t work    I googled around and found the page Installing Visual C   2010 and Windows SDK for Windows 7  offline installer and installation troubleshooting and the advice there worked  Basically you could have one of several problems  and you have to look in the log file to see what s going on  In my log file I had    6 17 07 PM Saturday  October 01  2011  C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 1 Setup SFX vcredist x64 exe installation failed with return code 5100  so as that above web page suggested  I uninstalled both copies of the Visual C   2010 Redistributable Package that I had  both x86 and x64   and then when I ran the Windows nbsp 7 SDK installer again  it worked    Although you might have a different problem than me  Try the solutions at the Ctrl F5 and patheticcockroach com websites that I linked   I hoped this helped

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Uninstalling all C   redistributables and unchecking the C   option worked for me  Note that I have VS2010 SP1  and VS2012 installed already

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One of the things to also keep in mind is that when you have Visual Studio 2010 SP1 installed some C   compilers and libraries may have been removed  There s been an update made available by Microsoft to make sure those are brought back to your system      Install this update to restore the Visual C   compilers and libraries   that may have been removed when Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1    SP1  was installed  The compilers and libraries are part of the   Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit for Windows 7 and the  NET   Framework 4  later referred to as the Windows SDK 7 1     Also  when you read the VS2010 SP1 README you ll also notice that some notes have been made in regards to the Windows 7 SDK  See section 2 2 1  installation  It may be that one of these conditions may apply to you and therefore may need to uncheck the C   compiler-checkbox as the SDK installer will attempt to install an older version of compilers   R you may need to uninstall VS2010 SP1 and re-run the SDK 7 1 installation  repair or modification       Condition 1  If the Visual C   Compilers checkbox is selected when the   Windows SDK 7 1 is installed  repaired  or modified after Visual   Studio 2010 SP1 has been installed  the error may be encountered and   some selected components may not be installed        Workaround  Clear the Visual C   Compilers checkbox before you run the   Windows SDK 7 1 installation  repair  or modification       Condition 2  If the Visual C   Compilers checkbox is selected when the   Windows SDK 7 1 is installed  repaired  or modified after Visual   Studio 2010 has been installed but Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has not been   uninstalled  the error may be encountered       Workaround  Uninstall Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and then rerun the   Windows SDK 7 1 installation  repair  or modification    However  even then I found that I still needed to uninstall any existing Visual C   2010 redistributables  as has been suggested by mgrandi

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I could never get the Windows nbsp 7 SDK to install either  and it suggested I remove the latest SDK and Visual Studio 2012 Express  That didn t work    There was also something about  NET 3 5  I installed the Server 2008 SDK with  NET 3 5  uninstalled Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2010 redistributables and made sure redistributables were unchecked in the installation options   Also  you need the  NET 4 framework already installed  which you can download from Microsoft s site  Then it worked

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mgrandi provided a very good resource and answer  I followed similar guidelines and by removing  leftover  components managed to solve the problem    As a reference  take a look at Windows SDK for Windows 7 and  NET Framework 4 Release Notes   This downloads the release notes of the SDK  you should also have it on your computer after trying to install the SDK   and in the section  Installing and Uninstalling the Windows SDK  you can see that Microsoft recommend cleaning some mess after them

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Do you have access to a PC with Windows nbsp 7  or a PC with the SDK already installed   If so  the easiest solution is to copy the C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 1 folder from the Windows nbsp 7 machine to the Windows nbsp 8 machine

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All of these  and other  solutions have failed completely for me so I figured out another   You need the offline installation package  mine was x64   and you need to manually install only the samples  Opening the ISO-file with  for example  7-Zip from location Setup WinSDKSamples amd64 and running WinSDKSamples amd64 msi did this for me   Then you just use the normal setup file to REPAIR the installation and choose whatever components you wish

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