Install Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 7

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I would like to install Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 7 64-bit.

For some reason, the installer says "Setup Blocked" with an error "This version of Visual Studio requires a computer with a newer version of Windows".

Error on installing Visual Studio 2013

This error is not exactly descriptive of what's wrong. The least I could do was verify that I have the following installed :

  1. Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) with Service Pack 1
  2. Internet Explorer 10
    • Version: 10.0.9200.16750
    • Update Versions: 10.0.12 (KB2898785)
  3. All Windows Updates that were available for installing on 11th of Dec. 2013.

Executed the installer with the /log winexp.log argument and got the following : winexp.log.

Any ideas of what else could be the problem ?

Thanks.

Edit : by looking at this question there was a crack that allowed installing Windows Phone's SDK on Windows 7 - does anyone know a similar solution for VS 2013 ?

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