Windows Update offers updates to programs no longer installed

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I am running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit edition with Service Pack 1, and I've discovered two items in Windows Update that fail every time I try to install them. One is "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1" (KB2565057), which at least lets me

know the installation failed with error code 0x80070643. The other is "Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 XML Editor (KB2251487)", which seems to hang after a while, and I have to do a System Restore to a point before I tried to

install that update in order to ensure my system's stability. I have had to hide both of these important system updates.Today, I installed the System Update Readiness Tool for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB947821) in hopes that this would at least fix my problem with KB2251487, but that was no help -- I had to do the System Restore act once again.I was left with only one recourse: To be rid of these problematic updates for good, I had to uninstall Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. However, upon looking at my Programs and Features list in the Windows 7 Control Panel, I discovered a major problem:

Neither of those programs were installed on my computer! So my question is this: Why is Windows Update still offering critical updates to programs I no longer have installed on my computer, and what, if anything, can I do to work around this problem,

besides merely hiding the troublesome updates?

 

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