I've went through various supposed solutions for this problem but I'm unclear as to why they are marked as solved when there is no solution so far. I've attached files from WER hoping that it helps somebody figure this out.... well I tried anyway, the drag and drop/browse files to attach doesn't work. I've included one of them in this body that is a log file that came from the failed installation. The other is a WER file with the error information from WER. Hopefully somebody contacts me and I can forward the WER files to them. 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Windows will notify you if a solution is available. 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