When i try to install Messenger, i get an error coming up that says

"MSN Messenger setup has failed with error code: '1601'. Please go to the MSN Messenger Web site and download the software from there."

Has anyone had this problem before? or does anyone have a suggestion?

did u have it installed b4?

anyways go look and delete everything u have about msn in registry.

then look for the .msi file in windows dir. delete that and then install

that's not a tried method, I do this whenever I get an error as stupid as that. it usually works...

Yeh delete all the files associated with it and try again.

Allthough I had the setup I used on XP and it didn't work on a fresh installation, I just went to http://www.msnmessenger-download.com and redownloaded it(XP version again) and it works now.

wow is that a ms webpage?

never knew about it

or did they change the layout or something?

when i tried to install msn messenger on win server 2k3 it gave me the same troubles, i believe what i did is download the version for windows 2000..... viola! works fine.

hope this helps.