After hours of trying to figure this out by myself (and literally getting a migraine), I decided to come to you fine people for assistance with the issue I'm having.
So recently, I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and everything had been going fine until I decided to install the latest version of Plex today. Mind you, I wasn't running some ancient version, I had updated very recently before today. Anyway, on to the issue at hand:
The installation of Plex hangs every time trying to locate vc_runtimeMinimum_x86. I installed the latest updates for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable and that didn't help one bit. After a little digging, I noticed in my Package Cache folder that there are no Additional or Minimum packages for the 32-bit version of VC contrary to the 64-bit version. Hence why the installer can't locate the folder. I searched everywhere online for a solution or even a link to the Minimum Runtime x86 folder/installer but to no avail. This is the location it's searching for specifically:
C:\ProgramData\Package Cache{65AD78AD-D23D-3A1E-9305-3AE65CD522C2}v14.0.23506\packages\vcRuntimeMinimum_x86\
I'm hoping it's something that's just going way over my head for whatever reason. Any tips/solutions would be very welcome.