Games For Windows Live Update Problem (Error: 80070643)

Anonymous
2012-03-13T18:12:31+00:00

Hi,

Just installing this month's updates, and I'm having a problem installing one of them. Games For Windows Software 3.5 doesn't seem to want to update and is giving the error code 80070643. Had a quick search round and can't seem to find anything useful. Not sure what's causing this. Anybody else having this issue?

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T19:48:15+00:00

    Oh cheese, cant iinstall this ****. 80070643 in all cases. I done all possible things like reinstall framework, all of FixIt msi, and etc. No way. Maybe some viruses-rootkits-botnets?

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T19:19:29+00:00

    I'm having the same prob. Used the fixit - no change. Tried to find the actual update to download manually - just get redirected to the very Windows Live support page.  No exclamation mark in the shutdown icon.  Did do a restart (since the update was bundled with all the other "patch tuesday" updates but that didnt help. Am on Vista Business SP2 32-bit.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T19:14:47+00:00

    Didn't get the same results as you — "fixit" didn't appear to do anything, I even ran the "aggresive" fix it earlier, to no avail. Glad yours is good now though. . . .

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T18:55:42+00:00

    Ok, got it!

    Ran Fix it as I said above, but this time the ShutDown button had the little orange exclamation icon beside it.

    When clicked on it said "Shut Down and install update".

    So I did, and upon cold re-start (not re-boot), Windows Update said all was installed and everything was OK.

    Les

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-03-13T18:45:37+00:00

    Also experiencing this issue, ran all suggested MS fixes including .net framework repair, no success.

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