MiKTeX and proTeXt ⇒ Automatic Package Installation fails

[herma48852]

I tried using the MiKTeX Package Manager (Windows 7, MiKTeX 2.9) to download the ms package (which I also needed for TikZ) and the popup window seems to hang during the extraction.

lightweight database digest: a749da4d95e8532c4cc83b4564c582c2
going to download 2102632 bytes
going to install 13 file(s) (1 package(s))
downloading http://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/systems/win ... s.tar.lzma...
2102632 bytes, 285.66 KB/Sec
extracting files from ms.tar.lzma...

I do not see any "complete" messages following this and when I run TeXworks it still complains about not being able to find "ms.sty". I have tried removing and re-adding the package numerous times to no avail. Suggestions?

[tom]

I'm not sure if you can actually load ms since it's a collection of packages. You might have to load just the package(s) you require, e.g. prelim2e. See here for a list of packages contained in ms.