Installation of Windows SDK failed on Windows 7 x64. «installation failed with return code 5100»

I try and install the SK and it fails for both the Web installer and the ISO>DVD route. Same error each time:

12:22:50 PM Wednesday, July 11, 2012: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation failed with return code 5100

The following lines are less than helpful because they suggest going to a place I don’t have.

12:23:21 PM Wednesday, July 11, 2012: [SDKSetup:Error] Config_Products_Install: Installation of Product Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 (failed): Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information. Stack: at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureRelatedSfx() at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureNewProduct(ManualResetEvent CancelEvent)
12:23:21 PM Wednesday, July 11, 2012: [SDKSetup:Info] Config_Products_InstallNew: End installation of new product: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7
12:23:21 PM Wednesday, July 11, 2012: [SDKSetup:Error] Config_Products_Install: Windows SDK Setup (failed): Installation of the «Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7» product has reported the following error: Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information. Stack: at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureNewProduct(ManualResetEvent CancelEvent) at SDKSetup.Product.SetupProduct(TaskMode taskMode, ManualResetEvent CancelEvent) at SDKSetup.ProductCollection.SetupProducts(TaskMode taskMode, DownloadManager downloadManager, ManualResetEvent cancelEvent) at SDKSetup.ConfigProducts.DoCurrentTask(TaskMode Task)

Any ideas what might be worng? The rest of the log file is too big for this message but I can send it to anyone who can help.

Windows SDK v7.1 won’t install on i7-3840QM Win 7 Pro 64bit

After installing .Net Framework 4 version 4.0.30319 I’ve been trying to install Windows SDK v7.1. I’ve tried installing from the Microsoft web interface multiple times as well as by downloading and burning 3 different CD’s from ISO images. I’ve also tried a clean boot and install through the web interface but had identical results. The first difference I see when comparing with a successful install I did on an i7-2500k processor is on line 11 of the SDKSetup_7.0.6918.0.log file. Lines 10-12 of the i7-2500k log file (successfully installed) read:

Config_Products_DetermineProductState_Begin: Product: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7
Config_Products_DetermineMSIFeatureState_Begin: MSI Feature: WinSDK.1631
Config_Products_DetermineMSIFeatureState: MSI Feature: WinSDK.1631; Installed: Local; Request: Unknown;
and the log from this failed install on an i7-3840QM reads (differences underlined):

Config_Products_DetermineProductState_Begin: Product: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7
Config_Products_DetermineProductState: Product: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7; Installed: Unknown;
Windows Installer reported no registered source locations for the WinSDKproduct.

The final error message in the log is not very helpful since the file was not installed:

Windows SDK Setup (failed): Installation of the «Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7» product has reported the following error:

Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information.

The log file when installing from the GRMSDKX_EN_DVD.iso is essentially identical to the one generated by the web interface.

The log file when installing from either GRMSDK_EN_DVD.iso or GRMSDKIAI_EN_DVD.iso aborts quickly with the message:

Setup could not find the file WinSDK_amd64\WinSDK_amd64.msi at any of the specified source locations

I’m stumped. Is it just me or are others having problems installing on the new Ivy Bridge chips?

Microsoft windows sdk install failed

Вопрос

While installation windows sdk

I got the error:Access denied ,extraction failed

• Перемещено Michael Wharton MVP 24 апреля 2018 г. 11:31 wrong forum

Ответы

I’d check you’re running elevated as administrator. Also you’ve asked in windows server forums that support the OS itself. For SDK may be better to ask in dedicated forum over here.

Regards, Dave Patrick .
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows Server] Datacenter Management

Disclaimer: This posting is provided «AS IS» with no warranties or guarantees, and confers no rights.

• Предложено в качестве ответа frank_song Microsoft contingent staff 25 апреля 2018 г. 5:44
• Помечено в качестве ответа Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh MVP 7 октября 2019 г. 6:33

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I’d check you’re running elevated as administrator. Also you’ve asked in windows server forums that support the OS itself. For SDK may be better to ask in dedicated forum over here.

Regards, Dave Patrick .
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows Server] Datacenter Management

Disclaimer: This posting is provided «AS IS» with no warranties or guarantees, and confers no rights.

• Предложено в качестве ответа frank_song Microsoft contingent staff 25 апреля 2018 г. 5:44
• Помечено в качестве ответа Hamid Sadeghpour Saleh MVP 7 октября 2019 г. 6:33

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“Installation Failed” when installing Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1

The operating system of my laptop is Windows7x64. Whenever I install MatlabR2013b on it, this message is shown at the end of installation process:

Your installation may require additional configuration steps.

1.The following products require a supported compiler :

MATLAB Compiler 5.0

MATLAB Builder NE 4.2

MATLAB Builder JA 2.3

MATLAB Builder EX 2.4

Simulink Coder 8.5

MATLAB Coder 2.5

2.To configure Real-Time Windows Target you must type rtwintgt -setup in a MATLAB command window.

About the first part of the message above, I viewed the provided link and I understood that I should install Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 and Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.7 for the above components to be executable.
There’s no problem with JDK installation but whenever I try to install SDK downloaded from here, it encounters the following error:

A problem occurred while installing selected Windows SDK components.

Installation of the «Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7» product has reported the following error: Fatal error during installation.

Please attempt to resolve the problem and then start Windows SDK setup again. If you continue to have problems with this issue, please visit the SDK team support page at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130245.

Click the View Log button to review the installation log.

To exit, click Finish.

What is the problem and what should I do?
I have searched a little but I have neither Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2010 SP1 (version greater than 10.0.30319) nor .NET Framework 4.5 (also bundled with Visual Studio 2012 or later) installed on my computer

Then what do you think my problem is?
What should I do to fix it?

About the second part I have asked another question.

I tried to install it again. This time it produced the following error:

I’ve a shared the log file here. It’s a text file but it is shown as an audio file when downloading. Please open it with Notepad.

Windows 7 SDK installation failure

I seem to be completely unable to install the Windows 7 SDK onto my machine, and the only solution I’ve found on the web is to make a swathe of registry changes. I’ve done this — still no success.

This is the reported error:

A problem occurred while installing selected Windows SDK components.

Installation of the «Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7» product has reported the following error: Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information.

Please attempt to resolve the problem and then start Windows SDK setup again. If you continue to have problems with this issue, please visit the SDK team support page at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130245.

Click the View Log button to review the installation log.

To exit, click Finish.

There is no Samples directory to refer too, and the SDK support team don’t appear to live there any longer.

How do I fix this problem?

12 Answers 12

Microsoft now has a knowledge base article called Windows SDK Fails to Install with Return Code 5100 that describes this problem and its fix:

This issue occurs when you install the Windows 7 SDK on a computer that has a newer version of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable installed. The Windows 7 SDK installs version 10.0.30319 of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable.

The error message is located in the log file, which can be opened through the View Log button in the installer. Otherwise, it can be found here: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\ or %temp% . The log file is most likely called SDKSetup_7.xxxxx.log .

Solution: Uninstall any existing Visual C++ 2010 redistributable.

I just had this problem, and I looked at the solution at Ctrl+F5, Fix Problem Installing Windows SDK for Windows 7, but it didn’t work.

I googled around and found the page Installing Visual C++ 2010 and Windows SDK for Windows 7: offline installer and installation troubleshooting and the advice there worked. Basically you could have one of several problems, and you have to look in the log file to see what’s going on. In my log file I had:

6:17:07 PM Saturday, October 01, 2011: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation failed with return code 5100

so as that above web page suggested, I uninstalled both copies of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package that I had (both x86 and x64), and then when I ran the Windows 7 SDK installer again, it worked.

Although you might have a different problem than me. Try the solutions at the Ctrl+F5 and patheticcockroach.com websites that I linked.

I hoped this helped!

All of these (and other) solutions have failed completely for me so I figured out another.

You need the offline installation package (mine was x64), and you need to manually install only the samples. Opening the ISO-file with, for example, 7-Zip from location Setup\WinSDKSamples_amd64 and running WinSDKSamples_amd64.msi did this for me.

Then you just use the normal setup file to REPAIR the installation and choose whatever components you wish.

You should really check the log. It seems that quite a few components can cause the Windows SDK installer to fail to install with this useless error message. For instance it could be the Visual C++ Redistributable Package as mentioned there.

I have had this same problem with the x64 version installation. It relates (in my case at least) to the dexplore.exe installation. I uninstalled dexplore, reinstalled it, did a heap of registry changes, etc. as per various blogs and SDKs all to no avail. What finally fixed it for me was editing this registry key:

I changed the value to 0. Once the SDK had installed (quite happily this time) I set the value back to 1.

What alerted me to the possible error was the following in the SDK setup log:

And this in the dexplore installation logfile:

I hope this is of assistance in your situation.

One of the things to also keep in mind is that when you have Visual Studio 2010 SP1 installed some C++ compilers and libraries may have been removed. There’s been an update made available by Microsoft to make sure those are brought back to your system.

Install this update to restore the Visual C++ compilers and libraries that may have been removed when Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was installed. The compilers and libraries are part of the Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit for Windows 7 and the .NET Framework 4 (later referred to as the Windows SDK 7.1).

Also, when you read the VS2010 SP1 README you’ll also notice that some notes have been made in regards to the Windows 7 SDK (See section 2.2.1) installation. It may be that one of these conditions may apply to you and therefore may need to uncheck the C++ compiler-checkbox as the SDK installer will attempt to install an older version of compilers ÓR you may need to uninstall VS2010 SP1 and re-run the SDK 7.1 installation, repair or modification.

Condition 1: If the Visual C++ Compilers checkbox is selected when the Windows SDK 7.1 is installed, repaired, or modified after Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been installed, the error may be encountered and some selected components may not be installed.

Workaround: Clear the Visual C++ Compilers checkbox before you run the Windows SDK 7.1 installation, repair, or modification.

Condition 2: If the Visual C++ Compilers checkbox is selected when the Windows SDK 7.1 is installed, repaired, or modified after Visual Studio 2010 has been installed but Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has not been uninstalled, the error may be encountered.

Workaround: Uninstall Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and then rerun the Windows SDK 7.1 installation, repair, or modification.

However, even then I found that I still needed to uninstall any existing Visual C++ 2010 redistributables, as has been suggested by mgrandi.