‘Do download Windows Live Messenger 2009 adventure is the aforementioned for the latest accessible’
Microsoft has fabricated, Windows Live Messenger (WLM or ahead accepted as MSN Messenger) as allotment of the artefact apartment of Windows Live package, and no best accommodate standalone alone bureaucracy installer for user to download and install just Windows Live Messenger itself. The adventure is the aforementioned for the latest accessible, beta for Windows Live Wave 3 which includes Windows Live Messenger 2009.
As usual user download the unified Windows Live Installer, which contains accession files for all software programs central, the Windows Live products such as Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Toolbar and etc. Most of the programs added than WLM is not needed, yet Microsoft armament user who wants to advancement the installer or install WLM on not affiliated offline PC or deliver the affairs beyond accumulated arrangement to download the massive 100 MB additional chip abounding installer, namely wlsetup-all.exe.
The affliction allotment is that the wlsetup-all.exe, which has all the accession files, cannot be uncompressed, unpacked or extracted into abstracted .MSI installer for anniversary alone software. While the web installer, wlsetup-web.exe does not accept the .MSI packaged in as it will download the appropriate .CAB off the Internet
For those who insist on want to grab and retrieve a copy of individual stand-alone Windows Live Messenger 2009 setup installer, which can be used to install WLM anytime on any computer without waiting for downloading, use the following trick to get the -Messenger.msi- file.
- Download Windows Reside Installer from download.live.com.
- Install or advancement the Windows Reside Messenger to latest version.
- Open Windows Explorer, and set it to Appearance hidden files and folders and appearance adequate operating arrangement files (uncheck the beat for Hide adequate operating arrangement files) in the View tab of Binder Options.
- In Windows Vista, run Windows Explorer as Administrator, and user may requires to yield buying and accretion abounding ascendancy permissions for the folders beneath afore able to admission them.
- Browse to \Program Files\Common Files\Windows Live\.cache\ folder.
- There will be a lot of folders fabricated up of 15 characters and numbers. Locate Messenger.msi book central one of the folder. Messenger.msi is the alone abstracted standalone bureaucracy installer for Windows Reside Messenger 2009, which can be backed up or affected to addition location. Do agenda that the Messenger.msi and added Windows Installer Package retrieved this way is bashful installer.
- Tip: %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Windows Live\.cache\cache.ini book contains the paths of all Windows Reside software articles downloaded or installed on the computer.
- If you accept any botheration with Windows Reside Messenger afterwards accession application the standalone alone installer Messenger.msi, try to install the afterward 3 programs too, all of which in altered sub-folders central the .cache directory.
Contacts.msi (Contacts)
dw20shared.msi (DW 2.0 Client)
crt.msi (Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime)
Tip: Contacts.msi is a have to to abstain or fix 8000FFFF error.
After avaricious the Windows Live Messenger standalone bashful installer, optionally user can uninstall the Windows Live Suite (all programs) from Control Panel, and install Messenger.msi (and Contacts.msi too) afresh to get rid of all added Windows Live apparatus except WLM9, extenuative time and bandwidth in approaching installation.
The ambush aswell aswell plan for all added Windows Live articles such as Windows Live Sign-In Assistant (wllogin.msi), Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail ,Windows Live Toolbar, Windows Live Photoector.
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