MacBook air 11" shuts down when trying to install mountain lion

And other applications aswell..
What to do? I've tried to reset SMC..

At what point is the shutdown occuring? As soon as you launch the install app?
If so, I would trash the install app file, and re-download it.
First, you might try running a Repair Permissions & a Verify Disk from the Recovery Partition. It is always a good idea to do this before any major software update/upgrade.

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