title: Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 installation Error
body: <p>I have Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate with update 2 and have been trying to install Visual Studio 2012 Update 3. </p>
  
  <p>I have tried every thing suggested here at the following links but with out any luck</p>
  
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  <li><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17424824/visual-studio-2012-update-3-error">Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 Error</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/3fc126a0-74ab-4b6f-a924-a1222620f489/error-when-installing-vs-2012-update-3-the-pipe-is-being-closed" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/3fc126a0-74ab-4b6f-a924-a1222620f489/error-when-installing-vs-2012-update-3-the-pipe-is-being-closed</a></p></li>
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  <p>NOTE: I am installing from the offline installation ISO from <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=301705" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=301705</a></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DCq7r.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>