Windows 7: Error 1935 error occured installation of assembly Microsoft VC90.ATL

Hi,

After months of trying different things I have gave up and come here for help. The problem arrises when trying to install AVG 2012. The error that is displayed during installation is;

"Severity Error
Error code: 0xC0070643
Error Message: General Internal Error.
Additional Message: Installing 3rd party redistributables failed. If Windows update is prepared on your computer, install it, if Windows update was installed recently, verify, please, its successful completion. Try to install AVG then again.

Error 1935. An error occured during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VC90.ATL, version='9.0.30729.4148', publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b", processorArchivetecture="x86", type="win32", Please refer to help and support for more information. HRESULT: 0x80070002.

Having looked around, people say this is a windows update error. I have followed various links back to microsoft support and ran fixes which have been unsuccessful.



Is there anything that can be done without formatting this laptop?

Thanks
Jason

Having looked further into the problem, if I look at installed windows updates it says no windows updates installed but I know for a fact that Windows Updates are installed.

Problem solved the way I didnt want to solve it. I've restored factory defaults.