The Windows Live Essentials beta download has just been enabled by Microsoft. Interested users can download the next iteration of Windows Live directly from the official website. Downloads are provided in seven different languages including English, Chinese, French and Spanish.
Only the Web Setup installer is offered on the site. The setup routine on the local system downloads and installs the different programs automatically upon execution.
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Two different clients are offered on the Explore Live website. The first wlsetup-webd.exe will automatically download and install the Windows Live Essential applications, the second wlsetup-webc.exe offers a selection menu to install only specific applications as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite.
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The available programs are:
Messenger
Writer
Family Safety
Outlook Connector Pack
Photo Gallery and Movie Maker
Sync
Messenger Companion
Bing Bar
Microsoft Silverlight
It is recommended to download the second client to prevent the installation of programs that are not needed (by clicking on Choose the programs you want and selecting a language)
This beta release of windows Live Essentials is focusing on two things: Connecting Windows to the cloud and making everyday tasks simpler.
We’ve designed Essentials to connect your Windows experience to the web services you already use – not just the ones from Microsoft. The new betas of Windows Live Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, and Messenger connect to photo and video sharing (SkyDrive, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, SmugMug), social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin), email (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail), blogging (Spaces, WordPress, Blogger), and document productivity (Office Web Apps) services. And the new Windows Live Sync keeps your files synchronized across multiple PCs and in the cloud. You can even directly access your PC over the web with Sync’s new remote desktop feature.
People like to get creative on their PCs as much as they like seeing what everyone else has been up to. Whether it’s Retouch, Panoramic Stitch, or Photo Fuse in Photo Gallery, Auto Movie in Movie Maker, or photo email in the new Windows Live Mail, we think you’ll be excited by the new additions to Essentials that make advanced tasks, well, easy. If you haven’t yet tried PhotoFuse to merge together the best of several photos, it’s a lot of fun.
Windows Live Essentials is only compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7 but not the widely used Windows XP operating system. Windows Live users need to make sure to follow this link to the beta page over at the Windows Live website to be able to download the beta installation clients. No direct link is provided on the Windows live page.
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The beta install an insane amount of crap in firefox bing bar, silverlight and windows live photo gallery as well as a search helper extension with no way of uninstalling.
Enigma did you use the custom installer?
It don’t matter what installer you use it installs them anyway.
You find programs like Bing Bar or Microsoft Silverlight in the uninstallation Control Panel
Here you go, uninstalling the Search Helper Extension
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/25/uninstall-the-search-helper-extension-in-firefox/
oh unless ghacks is sponsored by HP and windows 7 it’s added adware somewhere.
Enigma, see here http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/22/hp-touchsmart-600-multi-touch-desktop-tablet-pc/. It is running until July 1.
The installer does not works unless you are on Vista SP2. I am using Vista Home premium without using any Windows update and it fails. Time to switch on all the recent updates. Thanks for the post
The Sync is a new feature i think, and which you can use to backup your data, since live drive offers 25gb of space.
Live writer does not have much functionality changes, ribbon is good though
I downloaded this when i got an important updates notice and it screwed up my comp . Had to system restore to get rid of it