Download the Windows Live Essentials offline installer
Windows Live Essentials takes to long to install for you? Internet connection unreliable? Then grab the full offline installer at this link. Using it, you can install all Windows Live Applications as well as their required components without having to connect to the Internet. And if you still haven’t upgraded yet, you really should! Don’t let the online installer hold you back.
Update: ok, that link pointed to the old beta installer. Thanks to Abhishek for pointing out! The correct link for the Windows Live Essentials RC is here.
Update 2: The latest Windows Live Offline installer can be download here.
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December 18, 2008 - 3:42 pm
Great info – thanks – I retweeted it!
January 16, 2009 - 10:13 am
Problem
this product is now RTW
can someone update the link?
January 16, 2009 - 12:16 pm
The RTW release has the same version number as the RC build, so this link will serve you just fine.
April 18, 2009 - 10:17 am
thx a lot it works now downloadin its nice man gud link
June 9, 2009 - 11:37 pm
I’ve installed the program using installer, and it downloaded the files. How can I recover the downloaded files? Where are they? Can I use them to install into another machine?
June 10, 2009 - 12:39 am
Navigate to this folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Windows Live\.cache and you’ll find all the setup files there.
November 21, 2009 - 2:36 am
thanks a lot… it really makes me feel stupid waiting for the installation to finish knowing that it still downloads the installer files and what i have downloaded is just a setup downloader.. :p
November 21, 2009 - 3:36 pm
thanks a lot… it really makes me feel stupid waiting for the installation to finish knowing that it still downloads the installer files and what i have downloaded is just a setup downloader.. :p
December 20, 2009 - 12:16 pm
thanks for your article..excellent