topic Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever in Desktop (Windows)

Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

DaggerPen — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:38:51 GMT

I've been trying to download Spotify on my new Windows 8 laptop , and for some reason the installer just won't work. I can download and run it fine, but it just pulls up a window that tells me it's Downloading Spotify and then runs for hours without any change. When I give up and try to cancel it, it further just says "aborting" without actually doing anything until I manually kill it from Task Manager. I thought perhaps I just got a corrupted download, but redownloading the installer also does nothing. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

Hadders64 — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:19:26 GMT

Hi - I'm having exactly the same issue but on Windows7 - I've just paid for Premium but i cant install Spotify - it just runs and runs - I deleted all my old versions of Spotify in the hope of a clean download. I'm beginning to wish I hadn't bothered upgrading. Can someone tell us how to fix it please? I have tried three separate downloads but all with the same result - I have aborted each time after nearly 2 hours of 'installing Spotify'

Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

deucespencer — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 21:07:43 GMT

Im havingh

the exact same issue and it is driving me nuts. I can't download spotify or get rid of it. It's making my computer run slowly. please help. spencer.deuce@gmail.com

Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

kwest — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 01:19:22 GMT

I just got the same problem today on my Windows 10 laptop. Spotify tried updating when I opened it, and I can access the previous version of spotify just fine, but the installation wouldn't end. I tried closing the tab and now it's sitting on abort forever. Don't know what in the world is going on.

Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

MyTeenageMuffin — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 01:30:58 GMT

Simply just open ' Task Manager ', find ' Spotify Installer ' click it so that it is highlighted and click ' End Task '. I had this problem and it forced me to delete spotify. Hopefully this will not happen again if so; do the above and contact Spotify

Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

freddy3737 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:37:42 GMT

same. its annoying and im scared that my laptop is ruined

Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

goldstar — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 23:20:40 GMT

Thank you very much!

Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

ayeayeaye — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:51:31 GMT

THANK YOU SO MUCH AHH

Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

northm — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:16:40 GMT

This worked perfectly. But it is now 2018 and they still haven't fixed this? Disgraceful! Now I'm sorry I ever upgraded....

Re: Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

PlatniumSaint88 — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 02:34:11 GMT

My god thank you so much I finally decided to look it up hoping it would just go away at some poit thank you so much