Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 is used by this version of Quick Books and is integrated with the Windows Vista/ Windows 7 operating system which cannot be repaired or installed independently. You must make sure that. NET Framework (2.0 and 3.0 if Windows Vista) is enabled in the Turn Windows Features On or Off feature in Windows Vista/ Windows 7. Open the Start menu and click Computer. Click Uninstall or Change a Program in the upper blue bar. Click Turn Windows Features On or Off over on the left. Make sure Microsoft. NET Framework (2.0 and 3.0 if Windows Vista) is enabled (blue box or a checkmark is OK). If the box for Microsoft. NET Framework is not enabled (not checked enable it by clicking the box (it will turn blue then reboot the computer. Note: You do not have to have a checkmark in the box, if the box is highlighted in blue, that means it is enabled. If the box is already checked, you can try repairing Microsoft. NET Framework (2.0 and 3.0 if Windows Vista). If the box is blank or you get an error activating a component, please see the Windows features on or off box is blank article. If you are still experiencing problems, try performing a Windows Update to install missing updates pertaining to. NET Framework, MSXML, and C+. Important: If you encounter any errors performing a Windows Update, contact a qualified IT professional or Microsoft.
Last week, I started getting a larger than normal volume of emails from customers who ran into problems using applications that require the. NET Framework 2.0 and needed advice about how to get their systems back up and running. After investigating some of these cases and talking to some folks on the. NET Framework technical support team and Heath Stewart, I learned more about what was causing many of these issues. Heath wrote up an in-depth summary of this issue and posted a tool to help repair systems that get into this state in this post on his blog. I want to also briefly summarize the issue here and link to his blog in the hopes of making it easier to find in the future. Description of the issue Most of the customers I had talked to had the original version of the. NET Framework 2.0 on their system and then attempted to install the. NET Framework 2.0 SP1 (either by directly downloading it or by having it offered to them on Windows Update). However, the. NET Framework 2.0 SP1 setup failed due to an error encountered while uninstalling the original version of the. NET Framework 2.0. Note – behind the scenes, the. NET Framework 2.0 SP1 attempts to do a major upgrade of the original version of the. NET Framework 2.0. Unfortunately, there are some issues in the uninstall rollback logic for the. NET Framework 2.0 that cause assemblies to not be put back into the global assembly cache ( GAC) if. NET Framework 2.0 uninstall fails. That can leave systems in a state where the. NET Framework 2.0 is partially installed and applications that require the. NET Framework 2.0 will not run correctly. To complicate matters, on a system in this state, the. NET Framework 2.0 cannot be repaired or uninstalled and the. NET Framework 2.0 SP1 cannot be installed. How to diagnose the issue Systems that encounter this issue will have the following information in the. NET Framework.
Hi After windows update kept saying that the installation of Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 SP1 had failed I managed to download the file so I could try and install it manually. I went through the install procedure and near the end it said Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 SP1 has encountered a problem during setup. Setup did not complete correctly. Click to expand. It told me to see the error log for more information, heres all it said: [, ] Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0a: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0a. MSI returned error code 1603 [, ] Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0a: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0a. MSI returned error code 1603 [, ] Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0a: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0a. MSI returned error code 1603 [, ] Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0a: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0a. MSI returned error code 1603 [, ] Wap UI: [2] Dep Check indicates Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0a is not installed. Click to expand. WHen it asked me to send an error report I chose to view the contents of the report and it said this: Error Signature: Event Type : visualstudio8setup P1 : 14101 P2 : 2.08_orcas_x86_net P3 : mc P4 : inst P5 : f P6 : removeexistingproducts P7 : 1714 P8 : 1603 P9 : - P10 : gencomp760_ 12cd and C:\ DOCUME~1\ Ben\ LOCALS~1\ Temp\ WLFB7.tmp C:\ DOCUME~1\ Ben\ LOCALS~1\ Temp\ SDBB8.tmp C:\ DOCUME~1\ Ben\ LOCALS~1\ Temp\ VSW4\ VSSWMSISummary.txt C:\ DOCUME~1\ Ben\ LOCALS~1\ Temp\ VSW4\ VSSWMSIInstall Time.txt C:\ DOCUME~1\ Ben\ LOCALS~1\ Temp\ VSW4\ VSSWMSIFail Info.txt Tell me if you need these files. I have no idea what the problem could be. Ive had this problem since I screwed up my page file (see my other thread on this forum) and did a.
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