can't instal soulseek

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Submitted by maze on Thu, 02/14/2013 - 16:25
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Soulseek General Discussion

Hi,

I had some issues with the newly downloaded soulseekQt so I decieded to uninstall it and reinstall it...but now can't even instal the latest version, here what it says when I click on instal

"Error opening file for writing;
C;\Program Files (x86)\SoulseekQt\SoulseekQt.exe"

anyone can help? never had any problems with soulseek older version was off the internet for quite a while and since I've downloaded the Qt version which visually seems better to me than the older one I haven't been able to make it work properly and now won't even download...

help appreciated...can't wait to start sharing and browsing ...

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Submitted by thescarletfire on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 14:53.

What version of Windows are you running? 8? If it's 8, I had a ton of permissions problems on a fresh install, so it could be that. Maybe try running Soulseek as admin, just to see if that works? Let's narrow it down a bit.
Do you have sufficient user privileges to install into c:\program files 86? Make sure you are installing and running Soulseek from an administrator account.

Let us know if that works or if you get an error.

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Submitted by theoldfarter on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 00:17.

First time installing QT into Windows 8 & got a "Visual C++ Runtime Library" error message. It said "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way". If I uninstalled QT & reinstalled it using administrator permission, it installed correctly. Posting this to help others with the same error message. Love Soulseek QT!

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Submitted by thescarletfire on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 05:46.

Yes, Windows 8 requires a "run/install as admin" in order to work correctly during install.

Submitted by Nir on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 10:37.

That's actually very important, I'll see if I can't work that somehow into the installer. Thanks for bringing that up!