[gregahoffman]

I was installing an optical drive in my nieces laptop with winows 8. I wanted to install malware bytes for her but the setup would not run. is it compatable with win 8 or is something else blocking it? any help would be appreciated.  thank you

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Hi Greg,

 

This is just a guess, but are your running with Administrator privilege? That's likely the wrong term as I'm not at my W8 machine, but have you Right Clicked on the executable and then picked the Run as Administrator?

[Biscuithd]

Hi Greg,

 

This is just a guess, but are your running with Administrator privilege? That's likely the wrong term as I'm not at my W8 machine, but have you Right Clicked on the executable and then picked the Run as Administrator?

[gregahoffman]

yes  I tried that but had no luck , I actually tried downloading them from an a link in an earlier post where I had a problem with my own laptop

[Biscuithd]

I just downloaded and ran it successfully from here.

 

Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

 

Do other things download and install without issue?

 

[gregahoffman]

I also got it to download and run from their website, I tried to also download adwcleaner & atf file cleaner but had the same problem. I am totally not used to win 8, I have 7 on my laptop, this is confusing..LOL

[Biscuithd]

Maybe go over to our W8 portion of the site. There is a pinned topic over there with a free piece of code that will put a Start Button on that W8 machine and let you match the desktop of anything you're used to XP, W7, Vista, etc.  You can switch between that wonderful W8 "stuff" and the other desktop that we're all used to just in case you really fall in love with the W8 desktop.

[gregahoffman]

i'll give it a go, its not my machine, but my niece may like the convenience & if not, she can change it back.  thank you.

[Biscuithd]

You bet! Glad to help.

 

Anything else or should I close this topic?

[gregahoffman]

I cannot find the pinned topic in the windows 8 posts, could you help me find it?  maybe i'm having a blonde moment...LOL

[gregahoffman]

I also  can't get malwarebytes to run properly. I keep getting a pop up that says the program is not responding, I updated the definitions but it keeps trying to do that when I start it.

[Biscuithd]

They changed some of the pins, here's the direct link.

[Biscuithd]

I also  can't get malwarebytes to run properly. I keep getting a pop up that says the program is not responding, I updated the definitions but it keeps trying to do that when I start it.

Unfortunately, I'm mostly a malware guy. You could open a topic on the W8 site and see what they tell you.

[gregahoffman]

ok, thanks for the help though, have a great day

[Biscuithd]

You too buddy!!

[gregahoffman]

_{just for fun, I ran eset online scanner and this is the log I got afterwards. is any of this something to be concerned about?}

 

 

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