{"id":648,"date":"2007-06-24T20:49:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/24\/unable-to-install-wlm85-fix\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T21:05:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T15:05:37","slug":"unable-to-install-wlm85-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/24\/unable-to-install-wlm85-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"WLM 8.5 Installation Error: Unable to install Windows Live Messenger 8.5 problem fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you unable to install Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta (MSN Messenger 8.5)? <\/p>\n<p>Do your installation gets stuck at &#8220;Please wait a few moments while we get your computer ready for the installation&#8230;&#8221; ? The installer disappears and does not continue after this screen?<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/getting-ready-to-install.jpg' alt='MSN Messenger 8.5 Beta Installer' \/><\/p>\n<p>You can proceed with the following:<br \/>\n<!--adsense#HalfBanner--><br \/>\nMake sure you have &#8220;show hidden files&#8221; set on your system.<\/p>\n<p>You can set it by going to &#8220;View > Folder Options&#8221;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/folder-options.jpg' alt='Folder Options' \/><\/p>\n<p>And select &#8220;Show hidden files and folders&#8221;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/show-hidden-files.jpg' alt='Show hidden files' \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are on Windows Vista, browse to:<br \/>\n<code>C:\/ProgramData<\/code><\/p>\n<p>And if you are on Windows XP, browse to:<br \/>\n<code>C:\/Documents and Settings\/All Users\/Application Data<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Now delete the folders <strong>WindowsLiveInstaller<\/strong> and <strong>WLInstaller<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/application-data.jpg' alt='Application Data Folder' \/><\/p>\n<p>Run the installer again and everything should work fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you unable to install Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta (MSN Messenger 8.5)? Do your installation gets stuck at &#8220;Please wait a few moments while we get your computer ready for the installation&#8230;&#8221; ? The installer disappears and does not continue after this screen? You can proceed with the following: Make sure you have &#8220;show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[70,15,304,29,39,30,18,69,47,16],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tips","tag-msn-messanger","tag-msn-messenger","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-windows-live","tag-windows-live-messenger","tag-windows-vista","tag-windows-xp","tag-wlm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotcomunderground.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}