Windows Live Messenger Help!

I recently formatted and installed Windows 7. It's been working amazingly and I installed all programs perfectly. I've been having some problem installing Windows Live Messenger though. I downloaded the latest version from the Windows Live website, when I choose to install the Messenger, it gets to the "Downloading Messenger" and it stops, gives me this error:
"We couldn't install Messenger"
"Try downloading and installing these programs again. One of the installation files appears to be corrupted. hr:0x800b0004"
I've tried using Windows Install Clean Up and trying to install again and it is no use.
Any help is appreciated.

 

I checked out the requirements on the support website and I don't think I have any problem with them.
2.2@ Dual Core
150 GB HD
3GB DDR2 RAM
GeForce 9400 GT 1024MB

 

No, your specs are way above what's needed for WLM.

Did you download it from here? If not, try it.

 

Hey there, thanks a lot. I downloaded the file you told me about before from another website, but I was having the error code 80040154 so I thought that it must have been from the file. I re-downloaded it from the link you gave me and it did the same thing. So I looked up the error code and found that if you download the contacts-ship-neutral.cab it works. So I gave it a shot and it passed the Signing in part. But I got another problem which was error 81000306.
So I looked up again and I used this method:
If you are using Windows Vista(It worked for Windows 7 too!), disable the Auto Tuning Networking feature:
a. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, and then right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator.
b. Click Continue when Windows requests permission to continue.
c. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

It finally worked! :-D

I was wondering though do you have any idea why this was happening? Like it installed fine when I used Vista.
Thanks again.

 

I'm pleased you found the fix I dont know why that should have happened though.

One of my pet peeves is the number of default active protocols and networking Services enabled by default on modern Windows installs; I start with basic TCP/IP and work slowly up until I have what I need to do my day to day computing, any more is a drag on traffic and possibly less secure.