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Windows Live Installer stuck at 99% downloaded

Last post 04-03-2008, 12:15 by icelava. 0 replies.
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  •  04-03-2008, 12:15 2717

    Windows Live Installer stuck at 99% downloaded

    The great addage "don't fix what is not broken" often goes unheeded. The guilty ones include Microsoft.

    With the newer version of Windows Live Messenger floating around now, I had to go about upgrading three of possible computers I'd use Messenger with. Instead of providing the usual MSI package for download and installation, the site only makes available a Live Installer which is a meta installer of sorts. Apparently Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in research to discover people who use Messenger also need to use Sign-in Assistant, Live Write, Mail, Photo Gallery, and some alternative detergent to wash dishes. Seriously, why can't I choose to just download Messenger alone off the site?

    So this fanciful Live Installer goes through the paces of becoming a second-stage downloader and then stops at the last possible moment to taunt you and tongue out and flapping hands. A perpetual 99% downloaded status. Now, if a software was written to automate some processes with better efficiency, I can take that. But if the software is there to place efficiency gains into magnitudes of negative, I can live without that.

    Thankfully, some one figured out how to exorcise the system of all this Live Evil.

    http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2873818&SiteID=1&pageid=0#2899044

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