Can not install Windows Live Messenger, corrupted cabinet/low disk

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I just installed Vista Beta 2 and downloaded latest Live Messenger. When I
try to install messenger I get a dialog that the cabinet is corrupted or I am
low on disk space/virtual memory.

Fresh install, around 170GB free. Virtual memory set to auto.

Any ideas?
 
Andreas,

I have successfully installed Live Messenger on Beta 2 and 5456 without any
problems. Based on your notes about available memory disk space, I would
suspect that your Live Messenger download is corrupted. Try downloading it
again and let us know how it went.

-Reed Rinn
MVP Shell / User
 
I already tried downloading again, same result. Whan I run it it fails during
extracting the contents.

Running as admin, just installed. Updated with the latest patches.
 
I have been able to validate that the file is corrupted. I download a fresh
copy and it gets corrupted again. I had not installed anything at that point
except updates fro vista.

All other downloads has been ok, so far.

My problem is not installing but download live messenger.
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_EN
 
I downloaded via http://messenger.msn.com instead.

I had some troubles as I wanted to download the english version instead of
the dutch and had to change my regional settings briefly to get the version I
wanted. It seems to ignore to IE language settings.

I also contacted Live support about the broken download and was gives links
to the download. I have not tried them but you can maybe try...

http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_EN
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_NL

first english, other dutch. You can replace the EN/NL with the country code
of the language that you would like.

/Andreas
 
Hi Andreas,

I tried to change regional settings, but it didnt help. Dutch version was
working, but it is not my language, so instead i downloaded previous version
of messanger. No problems anymore :)
Thanks for help!
Jurate
 
It's not just Vista - I have the same issue with the download on WXP SP2.
Brand new PC too! I got the link from MSN's homepage.

Trying it from messenger.msn.com now...
 
I had the same error when downloading it from the prompt that messenger gave
me to upgrade. It worked fine when I got it directly from the msn site
though
 
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