So there I was wanting to play Spacechem on an offline windows 10 PC.
Spacechem is a simple game but wants net framework 3.5 in order to work.
So i go and find the 3.5 installer and try to install it and get and error message saying I need to install net framework 3.5 in order to install net framework 3.5.


What is the reason for all these shitty extra downloads. I remember it starting off with directx 9. Instead of directx being something you downloaded occasionally for each version every so often, something changed and it was split into runtimes and other garbage.
The same thing happened to windows with it's streaming updates screwing up peoples computers and don't get me started on streaming program installs replacing full downloads.

It's total garbage, unnecessary and trains the masses they need to have constant updates and an internet connection for doing anything.

Windows 10 updates are like:

I love 10 but I can't argue with this. :P

And that was your mistake.

LOL, I had that problem at work a couple weeks ago. The computer just kept on rebooting to install updates and didn't give the option of refusing completely. Very, very annoying. Microsoft sucks.

Would have been better if I had at least been able to schedule it for 8 hours in the future when I wasn't needing that system to be up.

are you sure you weren't duped? .net framework 3.5 is part of the windows 7 os and normally all the newer os's have them, or atleast should have them pre-installed. at best you need to maintain 4 onwards.

I still can't get over the fact that for all the advances in computing technology, we still have to restart after windows updates.

I'm glad I never even notice this kind of stuff, let alone get angry about it.

Probably because rather idiotically, Windows still packages the kernel as part of the internal system rather than a separate area.

Changing that would be a fundamental shakeup in all of Windows.

(It's still highly recommended to restart after a Linux Kernel Update.)

The only idiotic things I've had happen is one major update (Fall Creator) fail to update for reasons only which a developer at Microsoft could dare explain, due to the frustratingly and increasingly vague error codes they used. It's took using the System File Check and the DISM tool after a fresh reboot to make sure the update system hadn't run to finally slap it into working order.

Well, that and the multiple gigabyte egg that is left behind after an update.

That definitely is a problem with Windows 10. And it usually chooses the most inconvenient time to do those updates.

I dislike the prompts that appear to tell me about new updates. I also dislike the fact that all this stuff is happening in the background most of the time, without me knowing. My laptop has Windows 10 but my desktop PC has Fedora 27 with XFCE desktop.

Linux is nice and quiet, whereas Windows 10 now gives me a notification upon every new email to my Outlook account. That one I can probably disable somewhere. Unexpected virus scans are also obnoxious to a power user.

I found the solution to this which was retarded and wasted more time than was worth on it due to the number of false leads and clickbait websites. I don't know if the offline installer I had found on the MS website did anything at all.

The error message I got was wanting to go online and download something. What it really meant is that it wanted some extra files from the windows 10 iso or disc. I don't know if it was regular files or newer files from an update.
In past Windows it would have said that it wanted files from the windows install disc or let you try and look for them yourself.

Running an admin powershell and typing in the below, changing X to the windows disc location, is what finally got it to work.

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature –Online –FeatureName "NetFx3" –Source X:\sources\sxs -LimitAccess


Some other solutions I found said to type this into an admin cmd prompt but they didn't work for me.

DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:x:\sources\sxs
or
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /Source:x:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess Windows 10 not 7 :)

You still have to enable .NET Framework 2/3 in Windows 10. I think .NET 4 is included in 10 though.

You could of also gone to Start, Windows System, Control Panel, Programs and Features, Turn Windows features on or off and just marked the .NET Framework 3.5 Iincudes 2 & 3) box.

Also you'll want to enable Legacy Components then click the + and make sure its ticked DirectPlay as some games need that as well on 10.

Then click Ok, and you will need to connect to Windows Update.

Hahah.. can i put finger in mouth?

I had tried that and it didn't work for the reasons I gave in my post. How does one connect to windows update from an offline PC?