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WinFX Installation Error
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So I have been wanting to play a bit with the WinFX bits. I head down to Microsoft's Site, download the whole thing (over 1Gb in size!), and then I find out that this just doesn't work everytime that I try to install the "WinFX Runtime Components 3.0 Beta 2", I get an error.
This drove me to depesrate measures such as searching the help, where I find that instead of using plain old HTTP download, the setup is using BITS 2.0 (Background Intellegent Transfer Something {possibly System?}).
Now, I have BITS on my computer, and it's even enabled and running, so I figure that it can't be this. But it turns out that you can't use BITS from an application that was started with "Run As..."!
Considerring that I try to be a good citizen and not run as admin, that was a major bummer. It also raises the question of "Why the hell didn't they pop up a message box and told me so?"
Anyway, it seems to be working now, and I'll probably bore you to tears in the near future with Indigo / Avalon stuff.
This drove me to depesrate measures such as searching the help, where I find that instead of using plain old HTTP download, the setup is using BITS 2.0 (Background Intellegent Transfer Something {possibly System?}).
Now, I have BITS on my computer, and it's even enabled and running, so I figure that it can't be this. But it turns out that you can't use BITS from an application that was started with "Run As..."!
Considerring that I try to be a good citizen and not run as admin, that was a major bummer. It also raises the question of "Why the hell didn't they pop up a message box and told me so?"
Anyway, it seems to be working now, and I'll probably bore you to tears in the near future with Indigo / Avalon stuff.
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