Cannot install IE10 on Win 7 x64

When I installed 10 I went back to 8 updated and tried to install 10. Used Win update. It downloaded fine but the install progress bar stalled at 3/4 plus. I let it grind there for about twenty minutes and hit the shutdown. It started confguring and shut down as per usual. Fired it up hoping Coyote was not visiting again. All went well, it did the usual configuring and the desktop came up. I went for the browser and it was 10! Not a pretty install but it seems to have worked. Now that I have 10 I'm kind of wondering why I bothered? Guess I was bored ?

I could not even find an entry in the update log to go back to IE8. I had two other updates failing, too. I finally decided to reinstall Windows. 200+ updates later, all successful, everything seems to be OK. There is even an up-side - I found a way to restore Win 7 on my Vaio without all the bloatware, so I now have a clean install.

Thank you, Tom, for your efforts, you spent a lot of time with my case.