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College students who took advantage of a “deal too sweet to pass up” have run into a bit of trouble.The $29 electronic version of Windows 7 Home Edition sold for Microsoft (MSFT) through Digital River (DRIV) doesn’t seem to install properly on some 32-bit Vista machines.
Apparently the download files weren’t properly packaged and when some users tried to “unload the box” they got an error that read:
“We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded”
A discussion thread with that title was begun on Microsoft Answers’ Windows 7 install forum less than 3 hours after the new operating system launched. By Saturday morning it had generated more than 500 replies and been read nearly 44,000 times.