Yesterday, Windows Live Writer was working fine, then I tried to update Windows Live Writer— everything went south.  It was installed and working fine. I uninstalled thinking that'd resolve the issue on reinstall, now the application won't install at all.

I can't install the update to Windows Live Writer because of the error codes mentioned above.

The installer for Microsoft Windows Essentials go all the way through and then gets to 96% and then crashes with the error.

I have—

• uninstalled, reboooted
• reinstalled, rebooted
• used the full installer, rebooted
• used wlarp.EXE  /cleanup:all /q,
• used msconfig and removed all non essential applications and services from startup,
• installed all patches and driver updates.
• installed the latest .net
• and Internet Explorer 11 installed.
• even tried installing under a different user profile

Ref:

Safe Start
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

WLARP
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/essentials-uninstall-ui

Fix it application from Microsoft 
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall

Why can't I install Microsoft Windows Essentials 2012/Windows Live Writer?

Please advise.