How to enable .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8 without downloading it?

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Published on 2012-09-03T18:45:03Z Indexed on 2012/09/03 21:40 UTC
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Since I installed Windows 8 Preview on my personal computer, during the installation of some programs and drivers(Windows 7 ones) started to pop me a message warning that .Net Framework 3.5 was needed:

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I could use "Install this feature", start to download some dependencies(300MB) and that's it, but I don't want to have to download it every time I want to enable this feature on every machine that I install Windows 8.

There is some way to install .Net 3.5 on Windows 8 without having to download the entire Framework from Microsoft?

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