Windows Live Mail Desktop wont Install On Vista

Well i had Windows Live Mail Desktop installed on Windows XP Home and it workled great well iv updated to Vista Ultimate and it wont install it gets to the end and it just says rolling back install i really enjoyed this app and was wondering if anyone could help

[518 byte] By [NeilLibby] at [2008-1-7]

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# 1

Disconnect the internet/network connection and then re-do the install. Should work.

ZeroDefine at 2007-10-2 >

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# 2

Hey

Actually vista saves the program,windows files of previous os as windows old in c:\ . You first delete the windows old folder then install windows live mail . It runs

krlnarasiman at 2007-10-2 >

# 3

i have the same problem, i'm running vista ultimate (including all updates) and when i used it on xp it was working great, but as soon as i run the setup on vista i get the agreement in the bottom right corner press accept and the then window dissappears! and thats it no more no less, i've try to do it with my internet connection down but no luck. i hope theres a solution.

Vincent-X at 2007-10-2 >

# 4

Vincent-X wrote:

i have the same problem, i'm running vista ultimate (including all updates) and when i used it on xp it was working great, but as soon as i run the setup on vista i get the agreement in the bottom right corner press accept and the then window dissappears! and thats it no more no less, i've try to do it with my internet connection down but no luck. i hope theres a solution.

Do you have any other Windows Live products installed (such as Live Writer or Live Messenger)?

Check the installer that you used to install them. If they have a different language setting then you've found your problem.

More info: http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!1368.entry?_c=BlogPart

-Jamie

JamieThomson at 2007-10-2 >

# 5

hey jamie,

thanks for the reply but regarding other live products installed on my pc, that would have to be a yes, i've got live messenger installed (beta, including the lastest update) and that works just fine! i have no idea what to do to make it work cause i went into a bunch of forums to see if there's a solution but nothing helped

it's still that same problem: i download the setup file, run it, it appears for about 7 seconds and then disappears! and thats it

Vincent-X at 2007-10-2 >

# 6

I don't know if i was allowed to or anything, but the only way i could get WLMD to install on Vista or XP was to extract the Install_WLMAIL.exe file. this gave me a bootstrapper.exe and wlmail.msi. I deleted the bootstrapper and ran the .msi then it worked fine...

Jakewa at 2007-10-2 >

# 7

I had this problem too. I couldn't get Live Mail installed. Well actually to clarify, I had it installed, but the program crashed and no longer works. So I attempted to reinstall and it wouldn't let me. This is on Vista Home Premium.

The problem is the Windows Live installer. On Vista, go to c:\ProgramData and delete the folders for WLInstaller and WindowsLiveInstaller. Then run the install again, this will work. Unless the program stopped working, in which case reinstalling does nothing.

jayreynolds at 2007-10-2 >

# 8

@jayrenolds

Yep, that fixed it for me perfectly, thanks

cjm55 at 2007-10-2 >

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