Boot camp assistant stuck

Hey, I use OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1) and I want to boot camp a windows 7 on my mac. I've read the boot camp for mountain lion instructions and I do all the things always like it says. But I think something's gone wrong, the boot camp assistant stuck in " Downloading windows support software ". I've tried to download BootCampESD.pkg but the link is not found. Then, I tried to use this link http://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-lion.merged-1.sucatalog it's downloading and jump directly into app store, but nothing's appeared. Please help me, I can't install visual basic that's being studied in my school. I can't do my computer task !!

I am not going to get into an argument here which I might add feels a little like you are wanting too, or trying to point out to others that apple verified apps and software are better, something we all know and agree with you with. Either way I will try and explain again
I had windows on a partitioned drive before I upgraded to mountain lion it was no longer there afterwards and needed it back on the Mac.
I looked it up on support and went ahead and started. Boot Camp wanted the latest windows software only didn’t happen so looked it up. I kept getting error messages after error message and every error message I would look up the solution, nothing was helping to get those files down. 
Now this could be because the wireless was a bit slow because even igetter was having to resume a few times either way I had them in the end.
The thing is I have it done now and I might not be an expert like some of you on support however myself and I am sure a few others like myself can only try what support tells us a couple of times before we give up and look again for a solution  and if they had been working on it for as long as I had, start to look at any reply that someone has that might help. Then if it does great say thank you and move on.
I am not having a go at you, Apple or the support group nor saying to use third party apps, I would and will still always use Apple first.
I will have a go at Mountain Lion though because like I said I had no problems with my computer until I upgraded and hoping the shut downs and freezing up are just teething problems or bug that might be fixed on next update.  
I have my Mac partitioned now it took many hours and a lot of searching to get it done though and still wouldn’t be if I didn’t read what support and other people wrote.

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