IE10 will not install on Win7

There's got to be an easier way than this...
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 – Installation Failure ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (0×80070005) | Mark Parris
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In your case, this would mean uninstalling these 40 updates....
KB2506212 KB2552343 KB2563227 KB2564958 KB2570947 KB2574819 KB2579686 KB2585542
KB2604115 KB2620712 KB2647753 KB2653956 KB2654428 KB2655992 KB2656356 KB2659262
KB2661254 KB2676562 KB2698365 KB2705219 KB2712808 KB2726535 KB2729452 KB2736422
KB2742599 KB2749655 KB2750841 KB2753842 KB2756921 KB2758857 KB2769369 KB2773072
KB2778344 KB2779562 KB2785220 KB2786400 KB2790113 KB2790655 KB2799494 KB982018

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Yikes, I'll book some time off work!!

Seriously though, are these updates part of SP1 or do they cause a problem with installing SP1 if any are corrupt? SP1 installed fine as far as I can remember, and I generally have no problems with updates. I'm not at home currently, but I'll check to see if I have all the updates you posted later. Can I not just uninstall SP1 and start again?

I have some other quirks with my system, such as running IE (and FF) cache and temp files into a ramdrive. I also run user TMP and TEMP into the ramdrive, but NOT system TMP or TEMP.

It's important to know though, that the other boot on this machine is (apart from the SSD) near as damn it a mirror image of this one, and I had no problems installing IE10 on that.

If you could say what it is you want me to do, I'll oblige.

Thanks for your help and patience, Roo

No - you're looking in the wrong places for the KB numbers - ignore the download catalog entries in search engines, and use the filter site:support.microsoft.com which will get you much better results...

Your search then becomes site:support.microsoft.com KB2506212 - Google Search

and you can pick the one at the top :)

What I meant by my earlier post is that the method - not that you need to remove SP1 - of removing the updates showing that error, then reinstalling them, worked in that case, and may work in this.

I'm still trying to find an alternative solution that looks reasonable.

No - please leave updates to install only on command

Once you've finished the list, run a new SFC /SCANNOW and post the CBS.log file
Also run another CheckSUR scan and post the CheckSUR.log file (which I expect to be clear)

do a manual check for updates and we'll see where we are.

I did a manual update search, and have attached two .txt files, optional and important, which lists the updates (obviously under these categories) that Windows wants to install.

I haven't actually installed anything yet.

Interestingly a good proportion of the updates are ones dealing with remote access security issues. My firewall is now blocking traffic again!!