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Various pieces it couldn't find or update. Mostly related to Java and Xamarin.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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With FIPS enabled, about 10 packages and extensions in the VS2015 install fail. Disable FIPS and they all work fine.
As a nice little side note, you have to disable FIPS just to compile stuff in VS2015. That's not a good thing in an environment where having FIPS enabled is mandated by Security.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: As a nice little side note, you have to disable FIPS just to compile stuff in VS2015. That's not a good thing in an environment where having FIPS enabled is mandated by Security.
 I know this fact, all too well. MS Workflow Foundation - Activities does not mesh with FIPS, as well. 
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What's really F'd up is certain crypto algos built into Windows ARE certified FIPS 140, but the managed implementations in .NET of the very same algos are NOT. W T F??? Can you guess why Roslyn doesn't work under FIPS?
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How do you disable FIPS?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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run --> gpedit.msc
then navigate to: Local Computer Policy --> Computer Configuration --> Windows Settings --> Security Settings --> Local Policies --> Security Options
then navigate to: System Cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing --> right-click --> properties --> set to disabled
Now, this may not be your issue at all. FIPS is not enabled by default on a Windows OS.
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Reg hack is easier:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FipsAlgorithmPolicy\Enabled = 0 (REG_DWORD)
No reboot required. The value is checked whenever a process is launched.
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(cueless),
What is FIPS ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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FIPS[^]
I work on government contracts from time to time, hence the FIPS. FIPS clashes with Microsoft's hash algorithms which are not FIPS certified.
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FIPS = "F*ckin Intrusive Pile of Sh|t"
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That sums it up quite nicely.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Kevin Marois wrote: IT COMPLETELY KILLED VS - POOF GONE!!. NO ICON. NO REGISTRY ENTRIES. NO SHORTCUT IN PROGRAM FILES!!
My first thought was that Windows decided it couldn't load your user profile anymore and created a new/temporary one, but if that were the case, I get the impression you wouldn't have triggered the Remove/Repair dialog.
Besides, with a new profile, you would also have found your docs/pics/videos/etc folders to also be empty, so I'm guessing that wasn't the case here...
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Update 1 really messed up my Visual Studio 2015 installation.
Update 2 seems to work for me.
I hear lots of Win 10 problems, I hear about lots of VS2015 problems and I've encountered them. That IE and Bing have problems has been known for a while. I haven't heard a lot about Edge, probably because no one is using it.
Makes me want to stick to this here Win 7 computer, the last awesome OS 
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Quote: I haven't heard a lot about Edge, probably because no one is using it.
You haven't heard much about Edge, because the silent majority is using it without any issues! I and my family have had zero issues using it.
When you eventually get round to using Win 10, that dust cloud disappearing over the horizon will be me on Windows 11. Good luck with Win 7. Somebody has to guard the rear where it's safe and cozy!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: that dust cloud disappearing over the horizon will be me on Windows 11
So you're finally goping to yield to insasnity and live in a fantasy land? There will be no Windows 11!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Sander Rossel wrote: Win 7 computer, the last awesome OS
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I installed update 2 on both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 without an issue. I had no problems with Windows 10 and used it in preference to Windows 7 (on a dual boot system.)
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I have a computer I need to reinstall the OS so that I can install a working version of Visual Studio. Had a bunch of third party control stuff on it, and it broke visual studio when I removed them. Hate 3rd party controls.
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Does Luke Skywalker read PDF's with Adobe Wan Kenobi?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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May the Font be with you!
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I think you gave in to the dark side with that one.
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Only if he wants to Foxit up!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Adobe Wan... Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time. 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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