Beware new messenger beta!

[les_taxi]

I like to test things out so i installed the new windows live essentials beta pack.

Nightmare it's clearly very much in beta stage and I cannot remove it fully,repair it or instal older version

Tried everything I can think of and as someone who sorts peoples pc's out find this embarrasing

[James Hubbard]

Thanks for the heads up les.

Sorry I don't know how you'd go about fixing it,

but I am sure keith or "somebody" will know the answers


James "Technophobe" Hubbard.

[les_taxi]

Thanks for the heads up les.

Sorry I don't know how you'd go about fixing it,

but I am sure keith or "somebody" will know the answers


James "Technophobe" Hubbard.

Well I fix pc's as a side job and I advise others so It's a challenge for anyone on here to solve this

Whoever comes up with the soloution other than formatting will gain my utmost respect

[rani]

i have the same problem les

[KeithD]

System Restore??
Reinstall??

[Arthur Little]

... not MORE victims of these [apparent] 'Windows Upgrade' "scams" ... despite Les's expertise ... whatever NEXT?!

[les_taxi]

System Restore??
Reinstall??

Nope no success

[KeithD]

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-3...messenger-beta

[les_taxi]

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-3...messenger-beta

Been there already Keith no joy

[KeithD]

....no joy

Trust me... you wouldn't want my sister anyway

Looks like you'll manually have to trash the registry.

MySQL stopped working when my m/b crashed and I couldn't get it to reinstall kept getting an error. So I installed W7 on a fresh drive... and still got the same error ... It's not the installer that works fine on my other systems ... and the exact niggles I had on Vista are on W7 ... hence I said all along it's just Vista with the front bit changed.

[les_taxi]

Format here we come,seriously tho I have no issues with windows 7 it's for me the best yet but the beta essentials is the problem.

I HATE to be beaten

[KeithD]

I HATE to be beaten

That's what I'm like.... alas computers are so thick they crash outside the box

[fred]

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-3...messenger-beta

So why is it working on their machines?

[stevie c]

I prefer the windows vistra never had any problems with vista

[les_taxi]

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-3...messenger-beta

So why is it working on their machines?

Because every machine is different,You will find many people cannot do anything with it once you attempt to re-install it.

[les_taxi]

I prefer the windows vistra never had any problems with vista

windows 7 is vista basically but better.

[les_taxi]

fixed


goto http://www.webuser.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=893060

download and install, goto C:\Program Files\Windows Installer Clean Up

run msicuu.exe

choose everything that has windows live in the title

click remove

exit and reboot pc

install windows essentials



And it was my son who fixed it too,he is **** hot at pc's damn him lol

[James Hubbard]

gosh, and i was just about to tell you to do those things

[les_taxi]

I know that

The problem was microsoft removed the clean up utility as it messed up other things,thats what I needed

Luckily my son found a link and was able to use that to solve the problem,lots of deleteing was required but I'm happy for now but will format in time as I love a quick format

[somebody]

Nice one glad its alsorted. Very handy tool that and I think the real reason its not avaiable anymore is due to people abusing it

Also I guess so many industry people simply make a snapshot http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/rest2.htm or simply flatten and reload an image on they think all people must do and not simply want to fix the OS and keep it in situ.

While at work we simply flatten and reload an image at home we have PC's with XP installs years old..