Unless there is a security suite stopping the installation (Norton, McAfee,
etc) he should be able to download the install file, right click and choose
'run as administrator' and get all to install

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"Willow1622" <Willow1622@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've been reading on here and still haven't found any answers that can
> help
> me.
>
> My friend just bought a computer with Vista. He's had it 5 days. He tried
> to
> install,
> Windows Live Messenger, AIM, and Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo Messenger gets to
> 5
> % installed, and then quits. It WILL NOT install at all. He's tried it
> about
> 70 times. Several different ways. I even sent him the download, AND a cd
> to
> install it from. Nothing works.
>
> Windows Live gets to 99% and stops. AIM was the only thing he got
> installed
> (and it barely works), and he had to get a friend to do it from a flash
> drive. Somehow he had the whole AIM on there and all he had to do was just
> transfer the folder over. I tried this for him, with yahoo and that didnt
> even work.
>
> Can someone please help me? The only thing he has gotten to work RIGHT is
> myspace IM, and that won't do web cams.
>
> Thank you[/color]