title: Visual c++ 2015 redistr without windows update
body: <p>I have Windows 8.1 rtm, and I want to install Visual C++ for visual studio 2015 redistr, but without updating windows because I dont want to be spyed by microsoft or find windows 10 on my pc. I know there are other questions about this but this one is "without update", so please dont mark this...</p>
  
  <p>The redistr install stucks installing KB2999226. If I install KB2999226 alone, it says "not applicable to your machine". Someone sayd that it need KB2919355 (win 8.1 update1?) that I don't want to install for the reasons above...</p>
  
  <p>After using the trick of this good guy <a href="https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1595468" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1595468</a> , I forced the install of KB2999226. Now the redistr installation completes sucessfully, but its a false positive, there are no dlls.</p>
  
  <p>I tryed  to copy 61 dlls from the redistr temp folders to system folders(32 and 64). Now the apps error message changed to "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)".</p>
  
  <p>So I'd like or to make the installation functional or make the dlls i copyed works. Also I wonder if the win10 spying came to windows 8(and 7) AFTER the 8.1 update1... Thanks.</p>