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Originally Posted by lunkerguy
I finally was able to install it. I downloaded the installer to the desktop, copy and pasted it into the windows/system32 folder, then did the search 'cmd', 'run as administrator', then used the 'msiexec/i calibre0.7.38.msi' command. Then it installed. Thanks toddos for pointing me in the right direction. I still don't know why it wouldn't work, but I don't have to worry about that again. I hope.
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For starters, you didn't need to move the .msi to windows\system32. Second, you didn't answer whether or not you are using UAC. I assume not, and this is most likely the problem. Installers need administration privileges to install most of the time, and without UAC they can't automatically prompt for elevation. Thus they fail saying you don't have permission to install.
Turn UAC on. There's rarely, if ever, any reason to run with it off (the only reason to do so is to satisfy poorly written, broken software, and you shouldn't be rewarding developers who don't know how to write good software).