MS Visual Studio 2008 update failing every startup

eiranix · 20 Jan 2014

No problem :)
Thanks for the help!

NoelDP · 21 Jan 2014

The event that triggers the rollback involves a couple of files -
Please open an Elevated Command Prompt, and run the following commands - they may help me understand what's going on.

DIR "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VSTA\AppInfoDocument"
ICACLS "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VSTA\AppInfoDocument" /T
ICACLS "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\addinutil.exe"

Post the results.

eiranix · 21 Jan 2014

The folder 'AppInfoDocument' for the first two doesn't exist.

The third gives:

Code:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\addinutil.exe NT SERVICE\TrustedInstalle
r:(F)
                                                      BUILTIN\Administrators:(RX
)
                                                      NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(RX)
                                                      BUILTIN\Users:(RX)

Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

eiranix · 21 Jan 2014

Ok so I just manually created the AppInfoDocument folder, ran the update and it worked!
I would've thought a Microsoft update would create a folder if it needed it there?? Oh well it's happy now.
Thanks for all your help! :)

NoelDP · 22 Jan 2014

Oh wow! - I wasn't expecting it either :)

Well done!

Good luck