Install Windows Installe package on Vista x64

An error occurred today when I tried to install a hotfix on Windows Vista.

After double-click the .msu file, there was a pop-up dialog saying "The update does not apply to your system".

Tried for several times without any effort.

 

So search via Google and find somebody met with the same issue:

 

As someone suggested, try the following steps at COMMAND PROMPT.

 

1. Extract the contents of the .MSU file using the following command:
'expand -f:* "Vista 32-bit.msu" C:\Temp'

Where:

Visa 32-bit.msu is the name of the file will be installed.

This extracted the msu file and we got the .CAB file.

2. Installed the .CAB file using package manager utility with the following
command:
'pkgmgr.exe /ip /m:"path\package_name.CAB"'

where path\package_name.CAB is the file extracted above.

 

Succeeded!

 

 

Kylin.Ming