.Net-runtime-3.1.29-win-x86 Won't install

Question

I am a user of .Net. I do not develop with .Net. 

I have tried to install this update of .Net but it won't install automatically. I found the files in the Microsoft Update Catalog. It is five files:

Can anyone tell me the proper order of installation?

aspnetcore-runtime-3.1.29-win-x86
dotnet-hosting-3.1.29-win_7
dotnet-runtime-3.1.29-win-x86
dotnet-sdk-3.1.423-win-x86
windowsdesktop-runtime-3.1.29-win-x86

Thank you 

Answer 1

If you are just using .NET then you only need to install dotnet_runtime. But make sure it is for your actual hardware platform (e.g. win-x86 in your example). Normally I would expect you to use the win-x64 version as you are most likely running WIndows 7+.

In general you should probably just let Windows Update handle this rather than doing it yourself. There is rarely a need for manually installing updates. You may even already have it installed through something else.