Windows Live Essentials 'beta' out now!

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I think that is a bug, it was in the leaked build, the only way i could was going through my Windows Live profile.

On another note i started the installation at 9pm, and it's still going, its currently at 64%, not sure wots taking so long

Maybe its downloading? just very very slowly?

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One-way webcam conversations are still not possible, grrrr.

They aren't?

Uninstalled. I wanted to have a look at where they are going with this, and I don't particularly like it. The constant use of live.com is annoying to say the least. The Facebook integration is a half-baked attempt (I understand it's beta, but give us something to test please?). I've gone back to 14. Messenger Discovery can at least connect to FB chat, so I'll stick with that.

They have settings within the application as well. Why replicate settings which cover the whole of Windows Live within the app? It makes more sense to have a central place to change the same settings no matter where you are on Windows Live.

Why in hell's name I cant modify my name?

You can. Options > Personal > Your profile > Name > Edit name.

You can't have 'display names' as they used to be but you can certainly show your actual name and edit that if you wish (I'm not suggesting having some silly long name in there like most people will try; I'm suggesting you use your actual name).

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That's a workaround to a feature that shouldn't have been removed in the first place. Why should it be harder to the same thing in a next release? This release of WLM makes no damn sense!

And, to reiterate what King Mustard said, that workaround doesn't even work when both people have webcams. Not everyone wants their webcam on when they watch someone else.

MS is just trying to pull an Apple and decide what's best for us, and like usual they probably won't even listen to the complaints.

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I'm getting "Error 1714. The older version of Windows Live SOXE Definitions cannot be removed. Contact your technical support group. System Error 1612." when I try to install...

Google is not my friend !!!

Any Ideas ???

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SuperKid

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I'm getting "Error 1714. The older version of Windows Live SOXE Definitions cannot be removed. Contact your technical support group. System Error 1612." when I try to install...

Google is not my friend !!!

Any Ideas ???

Have you tried manually removing Windows Live Wave 3 before installing? Don't worry removing it won't get rid of your settings by the way.

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Unimatrix Xero

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having a few problems with WLM sending messages to facebook even with my account linked, and also WLM likes to pop up from the minimised view for no reason what so ever

also im appearing offline to my contact, and also my partner is also showing offline to me as well

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Ambroos

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As long as they don't put Nickname support back in and Prinstcreen -> Paste support for ppl with something older than 9.0 I'm not using it. Really, removing nicknames was not a good idea since like a huge part of their userbase are teens that want fancy stuff...

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