Cannot install Windows SDK 7.1 on Windows 10

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Greg picture Greg · Aug 19, 2015 · Viewed 70.6k times · Source

I'm a software developer with a Windows 10 PC. I have to support some older software written in Visual Studio 2010 using Windows SDK 7.1

In trying to set up the development environment, I have successfully installed VS2010, and come to install Windows SDK 7.1, however the installer gives the error:

Some components cannot be installed

Some Windows SDK components require the RTM .NET Framework 4. Setup detected a pre-release version of the .NET Framework 4. If you continue with Setup, these components will not be installed. If you want to install these components, click Cancel, then install the .NET Framework 4 from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=187668 and then rerun Setup.

However, Windows 10 comes with .NET 4.5, so as far as I can tell there is yet another version check problem.

This would not worry me so much, but in attempting to install the Visual Studio 2010 compiler update, this fails, saying

cannot install because windows sdk 7.1 is not found

Attempting to install .NET 4 fails because it detects a later version of .NET.

Answer

Jeremy Wong picture Jeremy Wong · Sep 12, 2015

I stumbled across another workaround, which I've also posted on a msdn thread:

  1. Uninstall any Visual C++ 2010 Redistributables from the control panel first.

  2. Download the corresponding offline ISO image from the Windows SDK archive. This lists which ISO is which.

  3. After mounting the image, open F:\Setup\SDKSetup.exe directly.

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