Posted February 15, 201311 yr FPCH Admin I have for months continued to get the repeat request to update .NET 4. After following various instructions/suggestions on this site I gave up because NONE of these worked including uninstalling and reinstalling .NET 4. Then today Windows Update stated I had multiple updates so I installed all of them and of course it did the idiotic update for .NET 4 again but this time it failed with the error code 643. This time I followed the instructions on page http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976982 I did Method 1 and fixed MSI.... and I did Method 2 Repair the .NET 4 framework. I am now at a complete loss and I am quite technically adept however this has me stumped. The error just keeps repeating, I also ran into an error when MS Security Essentials tried to update. But that one I am ignoring for now. This is an older PC that had Vista as the original OS then upgraded to 7 as soon as it was available. In the past when I would get this frustrated I would just wipe the drive and do a fresh install. However when upgrading to 7 years ago something happened to the recovery drive (HP machine and that drive was to work with the discs I created) so my recovery discs DO NOT work. Anyway any suggestions can not have in them doing fresh install of the Vista OS. Would doing another install of Windows 7 doing any good, I have the disc for that?? At this point I can do it, it will just be a nightmare having to reinstall online games such as World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV. sigh... Any suggestions are welcome since HP is of no help at this point. Thanks for your help and time. View this thread Off Topic Forum - Unlike the Rest
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