Found several forum threads (thread #1, thread #2) that point to potential solutions but investigating further figured out that they are not persistent solutions across different subversions of the redistributable and moreover one cannot determine the bitness of the installed runtime. By saying ...
It is perfectly known that if the runtime is already installed and one tries to install it again in quiet mode it would just do nothing since it would detect if it is already installed or not. So, the installation won't be aborted if we try to install the runtime again but it is ...