Visual Studio 2012 Express is suddenly “incompatible with this version of Windows”?

Question

I\'m running Visual Studio Express 2012 on Windows 7. I\'ve been running it with no problems for several months now.

Last Friday, when I shut down my PC, a lot of Windo

Answer 1

I received the same message on Visual Studio 2012 Premium (on PC where Windows 7 re-installed in last month) - the suggested fix was "Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (KB2781514)" which seems to have fixed it

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