Unable to install Language Pack in Vista Ultimate (800700C1)

Hi,

today I upgraded my Vista Business to Vista Ultimate. I need Ultimate because I want to be able to change the language of my system (for testing purposes of an application I'm working on). Currently the language is English.
So the upgrade went well, I now have Vista Ultimate SP1 on my machine, and can select Language Packs from the update screen, but when selecting one, I keep getting this 800700C1 code. Ok, so I checked in the Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder, and yes, the downloaded file (LP-NL-nl.exe) indeed is not a valid Win32 executable. FYI I just downloaded one language (Dutch) for now, but I need French, German, Greek and Russian - and maybe Italian to play with.

I cleaned out the SoftwareDistribution folder, and tried again, alas : still not a valid executable.

So my question : is there any place these Language Packs can be downloaded separately from Microsoft. Microsoft Update Catalog did not reveal them, or I really must be typing in the wrong search words.

Thanks for any response,

Joris Spriet

Hi Joris and welcome to the Vista forums.

Does this error happen only with the language pack you downloaded?
Try to install another software and check if you have the same error when you open it.

Hi all,

well, after posting to the forum, I decide to have "one more go" and did the following:
1/ stop the update service,
2/ remove the SoftwareDistribution folder
3/ REBOOT
4/ first thing to do after logon : run update and install language pack
and this time it worked.

So, this is how I now will install all the languages I need/want.

Anyway, thanks for responding.
I'll keep an eye on this website/forum. There is a lot of valuable (troubleshooting) info in here !

Cheers,

Joris

Thanks for the feedback Joris, you will always be welcome on this board