Install Windows SDK 7.1 on Windows 2008 R2

• Fix Problem Installing Windows SDK for Windows 7 | Ctrl+F5
• Windows 7 SDK Installation Failure

This one works for me:

Andreas

July 9th, 2011 at 9:22 am

If you are still having issues try to remove
either

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable

or

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable

depending on the Version of the SDK you are installing prior to SDK installation. SDK tries to install an older version but the VCRedist_xxx.exe installer fails because a newer version is already installed (typically some 10.0.4xxxx version).