need help,real bad, with computer

[Snoopy]

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I can't download Yahoo Messenger or anything else. I need help.

 

[Guest]

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"snoopy" <snoopy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I can't download Yahoo Messenger or anything else. I need help.

What OS Service Pack level? How do you connect to the internet. Do you
have mail, web service? What, exactly, happens when you click on a
download link? If you press the control key when clicking the download
link, what happens?

Q

 

[Guest]

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"Quaoar" wrote:

>
> "snoopy" <snoopy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9711E937-75E1-4249-8CCD-772F9363918A@microsoft.com...
> >I can't download Yahoo Messenger or anything else. I need help.
>
> What OS Service Pack level? How do you connect to the internet. Do you
> have mail, web service? What, exactly, happens when you click on a
> download link? If you press the control key when clicking the download
> link, what happens?
>
> Q
>
> I have about the same problem, I guess. I start the download process with Yahoo Messenger, get almost through the 15 minutes of installing, and a box pops up saying I don't have authority to make configurations and have to retry as an administrator. But I am already the owner and administrator of my computer, which is not part of a network or anything like that. I have the ServicePack 2; is this the cause of the problem? I also have Webroot's Spy Sweeper; can that be the cause. I also have the Windows Firewall that came with the computer installed; can that be the problem?
>