Financial Software

I have grown a bit tired of Microsoft Money on my Windows machine. Plus they have stopped making the program, at least for 2009. I am looking for Mac financial software that:

1. Allows for online download of transactions from institutions
2. Keeps track of both bank and investments accounts
3. A great nice to have would be the generation of invoices for business

I might just have to wait for Quicken Financial Life to come out.

Blogging Software

Windows Live Writer (on which I am writing this post) is the best blog writing software available. Bar none. Find me one on the Mac that at least can be in the same discussion, please.

Anti-Virus

I am just interested in seeing if there is a good anti-virus program for the Mac. I probably wouldn’t use it permanently, but I would like to see if such a program would be able to find anything on my Mac.

… and I am still looking for a good online backup service too.

I went to http://www.windowslive.com/Explore/Mail and clicked on the Get It Now Button

then I clicked on Download Now

After clicking on Run for the Windows Live Installer, accepting the agreement and allowing it to try to start installing, I got this:

I was thinking what the heck is this. I tried again, and same thing.

So I did what every person would do in this situation – GOOGLE!

Doing a search with these terms:

"There was a problem with this installation. Windows Live Suite was not installed" "Catastrophic Failure"

yields many results with help options like:

• messing with the registry
• using the Microsoft Windows Installer Cleanup Utility program
• Installing all necessary components separately

After thinking about this and really not wanting to go through a workaround for something that I think doesn’t require a workaround, I realized that I already did have Windows Live Writer installed. As such, I figured I would look into my Control Panel Add/Remove Programs.

And here is what I found:

Ahh Ha!

Right click on it and you will get an option to uninstall or change Windows Live Beta.

I then choose Install or uninstall

and click continue.

Then you get to a window that shows you all of the programs that you have not installed. And you click a check box to the one(s) you want to install, and it works like a charm!

I had already installed Mail Beta before I wrote this post; that is why this is checked.

There are two things that I am still unclear on:

1. Why did the original installer still not work? Was it because I already had an installer available locally?
2. Did I install the latest version of the Windows Live Mail Beta? I think so according to my research, but I am only 99.9% confident.

I hope this helps at least one person. Let me know if you have any questions.