Windows Live Essentials 'beta' out now!

[xxx333]

No bugs here, only one problem is with WLPG, why this crap doesnt open images in full mode... it is set to open images in WLPG...

[revanmj]

About Live Mesh... doesn't that cleanly become uninstalled automatically when Live Sync installs?

It should, but on every computer I was installing new Essentials, the installer crashed and didn't uninstall Mesh. I had to do it manually, so it's a bug.

[Calum Veteran]

It should, but on every computer I was installing new Essentials, the installer crashed and didn't uninstall Mesh. I had to do it manually, so it's a bug.

Ah, I see. Thank you :) I was just checking because I couldn't test that and LiveSide said the uninstaller removes Live Mesh, so I thought I'd check with you :)

[Guest]

new apatch doesn't remove the main add, it just overwrites it with another image. :(

[HawkMan]

i think they've overcomplicated the whole "appear offline to a certain person" aspect >_<

although do i see people that are appearing offline?!

How is right clicking and selecting appear offline complicated ?

I still want what ICQ had years ago though. the ability to set myself as allways show online to some users while I can set myself as hidden/appear offline globally

[Dapen]

People complaining about bugs, are you aware you downloaded beta software which will have bugs?

[amberchan]

Has anyone played around with it to get it to work on xp sp3 yet ?

[tablet_user]

What about those of us who haven't come across any bugs? I haven't and I use most of the features. It makes sense for you to try it out for yourself; a lot of people who report so called 'bugs' are just not using the software properly and blame the software...

and the daily fail award goes to.......

Theres actually alot of people that are having the "contact list is offline" issue.

[OOOOOOOO]

Anyone finding that when connecting facebook connect to the messenger, it presents them with a blank box which only has a close button? I can't get that working. Other than that, the grouped contacts layout and the tabs are lovely ... and it's generally very nice :)

[Calum Veteran]

and the daily fail award goes to.......

Theres actually alot of people that are having the "contact list is offline" issue.

Yes and a lot of people are not, as well. Did you even read my posts? I suggested that Shayla try it because she can't be sure we will get those bugs. Of course though, you probably didn't read my posts because of your ignorant comment about the 'daily fail award'.

Has anyone played around with it to get it to work on xp sp3 yet ?

It won't work on XP at all :) They have not supported that with this release and I doubt there will be any 'workarounds'.

Anyone finding that when connecting facebook connect to the messenger, it presents them with a blank box which only has a close button? I can't get that working. Other than that, the grouped contacts layout and the tabs are lovely ... and it's generally very nice :)

Do you mean when you first installed WLE? That box came up for me, saying it was connecting the service to Facebook, but I just clicked 'Close' in the end and it had already worked :s

[OOOOOOOO]

Yes and a lot of people are not, as well. Did you even read my posts? I suggested that Shayla try it because she can't be sure we will get those bugs. Of course though, you probably didn't read my posts because of your ignorant comment about the 'daily fail award'.

It won't work on XP at all :) They have not supported that with this release and I doubt there will be any 'workarounds'.

Do you mean when you first installed WLE? That box came up for me, saying it was connecting the service to Facebook, but I just clicked 'Close' in the end and it had already worked :s

Maybe it's that box ... but specifically I'm doing it with the 'add' down in the bottom right corner. I even reinstalled messenger and no luck. Oh well :) Beta after all :)

[bolix]

To the people having problems with the installer try restarting when getting errors. I know you probably tried it, but was having errors myself but restart fixed them.

[mail]

Anybody else just get disconnected every 2 seconds?

[amberchan]

It won't work on XP at all :) They have not supported that with this release and I doubt there will be any 'workarounds'.

Thanks for replying. Pity, oh well .. hope someone has a go I'm sure there is always a way somehow !

[BajiRav]

WLMM has some neat title/caption effects. :)

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

Anybody else just get disconnected every 2 seconds?

Ive been running it pretty smoothly since I installed it.

[Jack Sparrow]

for some reason, I appear offline to all my contacts, but if I sign on from my laptop, I'm Online...also I fail to receive any messages on my pc !!

anyone else facing this problem?

[burnsflipper]

now the installer doesn't even work on my comp, says it's not a valid win32 app :blink:

[Jack Sparrow]

double post by mistake !!

[Dark-Side]

double post by mistake !!

Restart your PC

[Jack Sparrow]

Restart your PC

Alright will try, *crossing fingers*

[Jack Sparrow]

Ok here is the thing, Installed Messenger beta on PC and Laptop

- If I sign in from PC I appear offline to each and every contact, messages are sent but NOT received !

- If I sign in from Laptop, all works perfectly - just the way it has too....

So this is what I have to do to make the PC messenger work - sign on, onto my Live ID on my laptop, sign onto PC (two locations) - then sign out off the one on laptop and tada I'm onilne on pc and everything just works !!

Tried to restart didn't work, any idea whether the messenger cache may have corrupted during install, I deleted it in the location where the OLD messenger saved its cache but the new one seems to have a new location.

OH and the weirdest part - its only ONE of my id that acts weird like this, so hence I am sure its my cache !!

any help appreciated.

Cheers

[HawkMan]

The compact mode seriously bugged?

Anyone have the same problem?

Maybe you shoudl say what your problem is before asking if others have the same "problem"

[Junior Jatay]

someone can upload a offline installer?

maybe the files are in this folder

c:\program files\common files\windows live\.cache

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[Jack Sparrow]

Ok here is the thing, Installed Messenger beta on PC and Laptop

- If I sign in from PC I appear offline to each and every contact, messages are sent but NOT received !

- If I sign in from Laptop, all works perfectly - just the way it has too....

So this is what I have to do to make the PC messenger work - sign on, onto my Live ID on my laptop, sign onto PC (two locations) - then sign out off the one on laptop and tada I'm onilne on pc and everything just works !!

Tried to restart didn't work, any idea whether the messenger cache may have corrupted during install, I deleted it in the location where the OLD messenger saved its cache but the new one seems to have a new location.

OH and the weirdest part - its only ONE of my id that acts weird like this, so hence I am sure its my cache !!

any help appreciated.

Cheers

Ok nevermind, I managed to fix it...

Windows Vista and Windows 7:

a. Go to Start, click on Computer

b. Browse to the location, C:\Users\<Windows Logon name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Contacts

c. Delete <your email id> folder

d. Browse to the location, C:\Users\<Windows Logon name>\Contacts

e. Delete Contacts folder

Note: Windows Logon name is the logon name that you use to sign in to Windows Operating system

Re-launch Windows Live Messenger and try to sign in again, and verify if the issue remains

Hope this helps anyone else facing same problem ,

this was due to a corrupt cache during update or something !!

Cheers