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1. #UNABLE TO INSTALL SILVERLIGHT ON MAC .DLL#
2. #UNABLE TO INSTALL SILVERLIGHT ON MAC UPDATE#
3. #UNABLE TO INSTALL SILVERLIGHT ON MAC UPGRADE#

What a fiasco…I don’t know if I had so many problems with this because this is Vista machine (I HATE Vista), or if it’s just me.

#UNABLE TO INSTALL SILVERLIGHT ON MAC UPDATE#

Then tried installing the silverlight update from windows update…and voila! It worked this time. So I tried downloading the latest version of silverlight from the official website. Deleted everything that I could though, so I thought maybe I’d done enough to solve the pesky update error.

#UNABLE TO INSTALL SILVERLIGHT ON MAC .DLL#

dll files that I don’t have permission, even though I am logged in as the administrator, to delete. Then went to My Computer, and found the MS Silverlight directory under Program Files…and ran into problems deleting it. I also went through the other folders under Registry Editor, and deleted any keys related to silverlight that I found. The “HKLM” threw me, until I realized that in the window, that means folder “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.” Ahh! Found the silverlight folder, deleted the keys. The reg delete command listed above didn’t work for me, so I ran regedit to open the registry editor window. Had a little trouble with regedit–I usually try to stay away from that stuff.

I just started having trouble with the silverlight update downloaded by windows Update, and I got sick of seeing it always there, and always failing, so I decided to fix it–on one forum I saw, someone was getting ready to go get the sledgehammer…sounded good to me!Īnyway, I downloaded and run the cleanup utility. Just wanted to say the info on this website was helpful, at least more than anything I found on any of Microsoft’s so-called “Troubleshooting” pages. This will allow you to extract the MSI which you can then use to install silverlight. For example, you double click the installer and nothing seems to happen, or it starts to install then disappears, you can easily extract the install files out of silverlight.2.0.exe using a compression program such as winzip. Run c:\temp\install.exe to install Silverlightįurther to this solution by Curt, if the problem is with extracting the files from silverlight.2.0.exe. Run “silverlight.2.0.exe /x:c:\temp /u” to extract the files to c:\ temp. Locate the dir where silverlight.2.0.exe is Courtesy of: Bob Pomeroy’s Silverlight BlogĪnother solution has been used by Curt (below in the comments):Ĭlick start, run. This helped solve the update problem when the previous source had been removed.

#UNABLE TO INSTALL SILVERLIGHT ON MAC UPGRADE#

All attempts to upgrade silverlight to version 2.0 failed. Having installed version 1.x back in early 2008, the installer had long since been deleted from their temp folder e:\ext37559\silverlight.msi. The same cannot be said for Microsoft Silverlight. Cleaning off old installers is not usually a big problem, most programs can still update even if an old installer is not present. Edit: To further clarify my answer, nothing beyond the Silverlight Runtime install is needed to run OOB apps on a Mac.