Installing GitHub for Windows

Question

I\'m trying to install GitHub for Windows. I tried installing it the normal way and got this error:

Application installation did not succeed. Cannot locate a

Answer 1

I was just having this same problem, I was able to download the installer but after the installer (GitHubSetup.exe) finished doing it's downloading, the program wouldn't launch, it crashed with an error log. I'm using Windows 8.1; I have never had any trouble in Windows 7. So I tried right-clicking and "Run as Administrator", it again did it's downloading thing and then launched just fine.