Today when I tried to get Windows Live Essentials installed on my fresh installed x64 Windows 8 I got following error
You cannot download Windows Live programs unless you are connected to the internet.
Error: 0x8104000d
Source: WaitForCatalog
Tag: Windows Live Essentials
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Windows Live Essentials Install Error 0x8104000d WaitForCatalog
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Windows Live Essentials Setup fails
When setting up Windows Live Essentials, the setup installer might fail with one of following error code.
0x80070643
Solution: See Error 0×80070643 When Install Windows Live Essentials
0x80040609
Solution: Turn on Windows Firewall
0x8104000b Source WaitForCatalog
Solution:
- For Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta, see Live Essentials Beta Install Error 0x8104000b
- For Live Essential Wave 3, see Windows Live Essentials installation may fail with error 0x8104000b
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Windows Live Essentials Beta is released
Windows Live Essentials Beta is released
Today Microsoft announces releasing the Windows Live Essentials Beta, which include new versions of Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Sync, Live Writer and more You can download it from http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta. You can read more about the new features here or watch the video. I also had a post for Windows Live Writer 4 new features, check it out. (more…)
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Windows Live Writer 4 New Features
Windows Live Writer is the most popular blog client tool. Microsoft recently released Windows Live Writer 4 as part of new Windows Live Essentials Beta launch. I tried it and it looks great. Here is what’s new.
New Ribbon UI
Live Writer 4 has same Ribbon style menu as Office 2010. Actually this applies to other Windows Live wave 4 products, Live Mail, Photo Gallery etc.
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Install Windows Live Messenger on 64bit Windows XP and Server 2003
Windows Live Messenger cannot be installed on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. It seems that these OS are blocked in Windows Live Messenger setup.
Eventually I found this blog Install Windows Live Messenger 2009 from .msi files. The instruction on this page works well on windows server 2003. It also works on other unsupported OS such as x64 windows XP and windows server 2008
