Okay, I finally fixed it through a series of two actions. I know just doing the first action by MS didn't solve the update, but it did solve the issue I was having with Windows Fax and Scan installing the fax driver.
1. Grant access to the log folder as described by MS:
2. Download and ran a free third party app called tweaking.com_windows_repair_aio that did the trick with repairing Windows Installer, run it in Safe Mode:
https://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows\_repair\_all\_in\_one.html