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[Cross-Posted from Longhorn Blog with discussion]

I have battled with the December WinFX Runtime Components and Dec WinFX SDK on Dec Vista for the last 6 hours. I would keep getting errors like “WinFX Runtime Components Not Installed” or messages about the wrong version, like others documented here and here. Brian Noyes and others have had success with:

E:\Setup>msiexec /package WinSDK-x86.msi /quiet /lv c:\out.log

No matter what I did ( I even removed the WinFX Dec RC by HAND from the Registry) it would say that it was there or not there but in either case, the SDK install would not even start. I finally logged in as Administrator, something I didn't want to do but it failed there just as nicely-). So finally, I got the whole Windows SDK for Vista from Microsoft Connect, which apparently contains the WinFX stuff to install there. So there, take that Vista!! -)