Thank you very much for your guidance.
On the 29th, Windows Updates wouldn't work well (seemed to be getting stuck for ever). So i had downloaded the 8 .msu files from microsoft but when i went about installing (acc. to the order stated), i would get the msg "Not applicable for your computer". Then i found this forum and went through your Troubleshooting post. Infact, i had even down
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