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Can’t get the Win7 Monthly Rollup to install? Error 0x8000FFF again? There’s a reason — and you aren’t gonna like it
If you thought that Microsoft solved the 0x8000FFF problem last week, you thought wrong. @abbodi86, @PKCano and @geekdom have uncovered the “exclusive” culprit.
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