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Wednesday, February 8, 2017 11:29 AM
Hello I am a university student who is trying to install visual studio 2013 with update 5. But when I try opening installer from the downloaded disc file that I got from the university applications website, it gives me the following error; Setup blocked. It explains that "Update 5 does not apply, or is blocked by another condition on your computer. I tried uninstalling previous versions of Visual Studio and re-downloading the installer but it still gave me the same errors. Any help would be appreciated.
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Thursday, February 9, 2017 1:45 AM
Hi grandparoach,
thanks for posting here.
This forum is about c++ development. For your case, I will move it to vs setup and installation forum for better support.
Your understanding and cooperation will be grateful.
Best Regards,
Sera Yu
MSDN Community Support
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Monday, February 13, 2017 3:10 AM
Hi grandparoach,
Thank you for posting in MSDN forum and sorry for my delay reply.
For this question, did you follow internal access 54's suggestion to install the VS 2015 or VS 2017?
If you still have problem about installing the VS 2013 Update 5, this is the result of either not having a qualifying product like Visual Studio 2013 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate, or any of the Visual Studio 2013 Express products installed; or that the registration for those products is corrupt or missing.
In the latter case when product registration is missing, the few customers running into this problem can start VS2013 and everything else appears to work correctly. The cause is that the installer registration somehow is missing and VSUpdate requires this information to determine if it is applicable to the current machine.
Workaround
The easiest workaround is to re-install the product from either the download setup application or from media. In some cases setup will appear to run as a first-time install as if the product wasn’t installed. This will be very fast since all the packages are already installed. In some cases, you will be prompted to repair or uninstall, so choose Repair.
After the install completes try to install VS 2013 Update 5 again.
Best Regards,
MSDN Community Support
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