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<blockquote data-quote="ChrisOfCatford" data-source="post: 330458" data-attributes="member: 23650">[USER=27258]Flo[/USER]:As far as I know, only the windows firewall and of course his router, but I have never needed to forward any ports to instal MP.He is on AOL (hmmm), but his connection when his PC came visiting me was by my LAN cable. The install still failed.I have been trying to get him to stop being ripped off by AOL for a long time now, but that is another story.[USER=45547]ray[/USER]:He was missing one update at first, a service pack for .net but installing this didn't make any difference.The DX and WMP11 installers were the ones that I had to download, as well as the re-dist for .net (as far as I can remember). The DX and .net ones had icons but were incomplete downloads. It wasn't hard to locate the files and download and install them.I also cleared all known temp files before trying (although I think I may have missed the files for the installer that had failed as I was unaware of their location until after trying to install manually and getting the link for the folder in WMP11 section of the installer).Thanks,Chris</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ChrisOfCatford, post: 330458, member: 23650"] [USER=27258]Flo[/USER]: As far as I know, only the windows firewall and of course his router, but I have never needed to forward any ports to instal MP. He is on AOL (hmmm), but his connection when his PC came visiting me was by my LAN cable. The install still failed. I have been trying to get him to stop being ripped off by AOL for a long time now, but that is another story. [USER=45547]ray[/USER]: He was missing one update at first, a service pack for .net but installing this didn't make any difference. The DX and WMP11 installers were the ones that I had to download, as well as the re-dist for .net (as far as I can remember). The DX and .net ones had icons but were incomplete downloads. It wasn't hard to locate the files and download and install them. I also cleared all known temp files before trying (although I think I may have missed the files for the installer that had failed as I was unaware of their location until after trying to install manually and getting the link for the folder in WMP11 section of the installer). Thanks, Chris [/QUOTE]

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