I had the same issue and the following worked for me: I checked all the "Microsoft Visual C++..." under "Apps" and choosed "Repair" where it was available. I restarted my computer and then the installation went just fine.
Still no joy; still can't install the EA App. Currently tryingh to get the Powershell fix listed above to work but no luck as yet. (Windows 11, not a Chromebook, EA Help / emails no help whatsoever and so forth).
Somewhat sad that last year when people reported that "Origin is still working" seems to have been accepted as a "solution".
@4997a0ababa2ca0bTech support has been taken over by a bunch of gumbas who don't know anything either. Starting to hate this country. They're screwing us BIG TIME! I've been down for weeks now and nobody in India cares.I have a lot going on and don't have time to tally up all the products I own from here, submit a different kind of complaint elsewhere and get my money back. Doesn't even do any good to repurchase everything from Steam. It's using that blasted broken app as well. We need to be able to go back to Origin, but they ruined that too. The minute you try, the server immediately tries to switch you to the EA app. 🤨
EA Help suggest 1. Try sfc /scannow (in a command window) and 2. Try dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth 3. Try a clean boot.
This didn't work for me but working through my issue what did eventually work was:
1. safe boot with networking 2. run sfc 3 run dism.
I suspect that a clean boot and then running sfc and dism would also work whilst in a clean boot would also work. (If not you could try safe mode).
I don't know why EA is now requiring for me to download their app for origin. I was able to play my games before, but now I can't even get to them because of the EA app overlay that is blocking my access to my origin games. I have tried every solution here. I have created 2 more user profiles & did get one of them to work for awhile, but now it won't work. I have tried to put that extra line in the local.xml file, but that doesn't work either. I have tried installing an older version of Origin, but that doesn't show any of my games. I have tweeted EA about the problem, but I don't expect they will come up with a solution. This is totally frustrating & whoever put this crap out ought to be fired. And I can't believe that EA hasn't done anything about this problem since there are so many people having the same installation issues.
