Can't install preview 4 with error "Windows 7 SP1 requires KB2952664"

Reported by Craig Snively Aug 23, 2016 at 01:24 PM windows 6.1 install Visual Studio 15 Preview 4 fixed-in: vs-15-preview-5

I have downloaded the Preview 4 installer, then tried to run it. After chugging a little bit, the above dialog pops up, and the installation is halted. This KB has already been successfully installed 2 months ago. So what do I need to do.

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Daniel Dorantes · Aug 23, 2016 at 09:47 PM 0

I also get this message. Now I need to go to the IT guys and ask for special windows updates for just me? They will read this patch description and tell me there is no plan to update to windows 10 yet. Can anyone even justify the requirement?

Christopher M. Stauffer Daniel Dorantes · Aug 25, 2016 at 04:33 PM 0

This should be a comment, not a solution.

Christian Zuercher Daniel Dorantes · Aug 25, 2016 at 05:18 PM 0

May be it's the File in a wrong Directory: C:\Windows\System32\CompatTel ? I used that and it worked...

mrgenericcustomer · Aug 23, 2016 at 10:53 PM 2

Don't know if it matters but this issue should have the Enterprise-15-preview-4 tag.

Christian Zuercher · Aug 24, 2016 at 07:34 AM 0

The same Probleme here: KB2952664 installed and not recognized by the vs_bootstrapper.exe. Hope this is solved soon.

Stefan Barrett · Aug 25, 2016 at 04:31 PM 0

Same problem - installer refuses to proceed.. Have installed patch & reboot, but same error message

Christopher M. Stauffer Stefan Barrett · Aug 25, 2016 at 04:33 PM 0

This should be a comment, not a solution.

Tim Sneath ♦ · Sep 22, 2016 at 08:21 PM 0

Thanks for the feedback. We've identified the bug and the fix will be included in our next public preview.

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Added a solution by Rémy Mainil · Aug 25, 2016 at 04:56 PM

It seems that installer is looking for a file named "dismapi.dll". This file has to be present in either %windir%\system32 or %windir%\SysWow64 or any subdirectory.

A (dirty) workaroud is to create an empty file named dismapi.dll in any of those directories and then you can install Preview 4... :)

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Christopher M. Stauffer · Aug 25, 2016 at 05:13 PM 0

Creating the dismapi.dll file in SysWow64 did the trick for me.

Hrusikesh Panda · Aug 25, 2016 at 05:22 PM 0

System32 Doesn't seem to work. SysWOW64 worked. Maybe for 64 bit, you need to create it in SysWOW64

Rémy Mainil · Aug 25, 2016 at 05:44 PM 1

As commented Christian Zuercher (in a wrong post I guess), the file is indeed located in the

C:\Windows\System32\CompatTel directory. Installer is supposed to search in subfolders but this one has the "system" attribute, [Edit] and trusted installer as owner[/Edit] which remove that location from the results of "Directory.GetDirectories" method used by the installer..

johnny walker · Aug 25, 2016 at 06:08 PM 0

hehehe, rêmy, works fine.

Craig Snively · Aug 25, 2016 at 06:27 PM 0

Worked for me too.

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Added a solution by John Catenzaro - MSFT · Oct 06, 2016 at 08:21 PM

A fix for this issue is now available in Visual Studio Preview 5. You can download the release from here:https://www.visualstudio.com/visual-studio-pre-release-downloads/

-Thanks for reporting!

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