Fuck This Zune Software

Quid

I finally found my Zune after missing it for nearly a year and immediately tried to reinstall the Zune software on my computer. This has been spectacularly more difficult than I remember it being. Using Windows 7 I have tried installing it without any firewalls, as an administrator, using the complete Zune software package. I'm kinda at a loss here as to what to do and Microsoft's solutions have been even more useless than I would have expected.

Edit: Also relevant I get error code: 0x80070424.

Dehumanized

What errors are you getting?

Quid

Oh, duh, error code: 0x80070424

DevoiD

when you say "as an administrator" do you mean you were logged in as an administrator, or you right clicked and ran as administrator... because windows 7 has an interesting idea as to what administrator means.

That is to say, I believe even if your account is an administrator, you still have to right click and install as administrator, also try disabling UAC by punching it in the face, with a gun of some kind

finalflight89

This happens sometimes when the Zune software package doesn't contain an update for some related software that you have. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944938

In short, Microsoft makes a huge download that contains every bit of software that the Zune software is dependent on, found here. Installing this should fix the problem. I remember having this issue a while back as well.

Quid

finalflight89 wrote:

This happens sometimes when the Zune software package doesn't contain an update for some related software that you have. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944938

In short, Microsoft makes a huge download that contains every bit of software that the Zune software is dependent on, found here. Installing this should fix the problem. I remember having this issue a while back as well.

This is what I've been using and so far it's been no luck.

Right clicking and running as administrator didn't do the trick either.

finalflight89

I know this is old, but try running this before the install and see if you have any luck

Dehumanized

I'd also recommend sending a tweet off to Zune Support; they answer pretty quickly.

https://twitter.com/#!/zunesupport