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Help with Vista and MSN Messenger.....Please!!

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Can somebody help me please?! I am trying to download MSN messenger to my laptop (I have winows Vista). Ikeep getting a message saying that I do not have eough permissions to do this. My boyfriend and I are the only people who use this laptop nd we are both administrators! I have got no idea where to change permissions etc!

Please could somebody give me a possible solution and please keep it simple I am not the greatest on computers! Thanks!!
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Re: Help with Vista and MSN Messenger.....Please!!

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Right click the install package and choose run as administrator. This should open a prompt for your admin username and password
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How do I do that?! I am only getting the option to run and then it installs automatically.
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It must be possible to get a dropdown menu by right clicking the install file. This is most likely the way to solve the problem.

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