hey so i've been using live msnger for a while... but all of a sudden it told me i had to update to a new version so I click ok and blah blah it started downloading and installing.. but then i get this 'rolling back action' at the end of the installation where the progress bar starts going backwards to 0% and then says that I have a windows live messenger setup error code 1603... I can't even uninstall it to start over... theres like no way out. Can anyone help me here?

How to Fix Problem : click here

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2) Type msiexec /unreg and press enter and wait until it appears to have finished.

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WLM8 is basically MSN Messenger Rebranded into a different name  it'll either say " successfully completed Message " something lik that i assume

umm its not working.... still doing this rolling back action crap...

AHHhhh.. so frustrating... using windows messenger

I had this problem before and tried every solution possibles available on the web and none worked. While after I had to reformat so it worked fine after

Hi Guys,

             U can use the following way to overcome this problem
just go the

c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\microsoft\

Then select the folder "IdentityCRL" remove the folder,Since the error is occuring due to "ppcrlconfig.dll" directory correction,


Then run the setup and this time it will be able to install,

This will help you,


Regards,
Shajith

got the solution!!!

delete the folder c (or whatever) ://programms/MSN messenger  if it still exists...

solved my problem at least!

The error 1603 ("A fatal error occurred during installation") comes from Windows Installer (MsiExec.exe)

And that error occurs because you have either
- a bad installation of Windows Installer
- Windows Installer isn't up-to-date
- Disk space ran out while installing a program
- A certain file is still locked
- You have previously installed some updates of Windows but they weren't finished and/or fuxored other things up...

To properly fix it (fix from mess.be and the ones described in previous posts are far from 'proper' and/or 'complete'):

- Close all applications running in the background
- Reboot your computer
- Clean out your temporary folder and/or other folders which might take up much disk space
- Make sure you have all the Windows updates and fixes: http://www.windowsupdate.com/
- Redownload and reinstall the Windows Installer:
    For Windows XP: Windows Installer 3.1
    For Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0: Windows Installer 2.0


More Info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url...dows_installer.asp
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372856.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371185.aspx

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Originally posted by zweester
This procedure got around the error code 1603 for me:

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This procedure got around the error code 1603 for me:

1. I opened the WLM download as an archive (I use 7-zip)
2. I extracted all the members in the archive to a temp folder
3. I ran the MsnMsgs.msi
4. It installed OK !!