I’ve just re-installed everything on my laptop and the last thing was to get rid of the built in XP messenger and then install the latest Windows Live Messenger. After downloading the WLinstaller.exe and running it I got the following message from the Windows Live Installer
It looks like you’re offline.
To install Windows Live programs, you must be online.
Please connect to the Internet, and then try again.
At first I tried the usual things:
- Disable the firewall (temporarily…)
- Switch from FireFox back to IE and check that “Work Offline” is disabled
- Check I was actually still online…
None of which worked. Finally I found the following work-around:
- Download an older version of MSN Messenger (File Hippo has archives)
- Install the older version
- When you start it up, it’ll inform you that a newer version is available
- Install this one and everything will run fine
Ta da!
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