Error 1935: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Install

Question

I was trying to install Visual Studio 2010 and started encountering errors with the C++ distributable package during install, so I decided to install it by itself. Whenever I try and install it, it stops on
Feature: FT_VC_Redist_openMP_x86 Enter text and I receive the following error message before it rolls the install back:
Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'policy.9.0.Microsoft.VC90.MFC,version="9.0.30729.1",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",processorArchitecture="x86",type="win32-policy". Please
refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x8007371B.
I am running it in Admin mode and have tried disabling the services and restarting my machine. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. This problem is preventing me from installing numerous software titles that require this to be in place. Any help would
be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Answer 1

Copy the file "C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log" to your document folder (otherwise you can't open it) and open it with notepad. Now search for errors. Which errors do you see? If you're unsure about the entries, upload the complete CBS.log to your public
SkyDrive folder and post a link here.
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I have the same problem as ndfan1993, so I did as described above.
I'm unable to run most types of software such as games. When I try to launch the game "Total War: Shogun 2" for example the computer fails to install Microsft visual c++ so the game doesn't start.
In that log the following message is repeated many times:
CBS    Failed to get CSI store. [HRESULT = 0x80070246 - ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER]
2011-10-13 16:17:36, Error                 CBS    Failed to initialize store parameters with boot drive:  and windows directory:  [HRESULT = 0x80070246
- ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER]
2011-10-13 16:17:36, Info                  CSI   
000001ce@2011/10/13:14:17:36.416 PopulateComponentFamiliesKey - Begin
2011-10-13 16:17:37, Error                 CSI   
000001cf@2011/10/13:14:17:37.804 (F) d:\w7rtm\base\lstring\lblob.cpp(2221): Error STATUS_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER originated in function RtlTranscodeLBlobs expression: __rv.UcsCharacter != (0xffffffff)
Does anyone know what it means?
Or does anyone have a suggestion as how to solve the problem?
Any help is greatly appreciated.