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Windows Live Essentials Setup fails

emma — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:29:30 +0000

When setting up Windows Live Essentials, the setup installer might fail with one of following error code.

0×80070643

Solution: See Error 0×80070643 When Install Windows Live Essentials

0×80040609

Solution: Turn on Windows Firewall

0x8104000b Source WaitForCatalog

Solution:

For Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta, see Live Essentials Beta Install Error 0x8104000b
For Live Essential Wave 3, see Windows Live Essentials installation may fail with error 0x8104000b

Error 1731 During Office 2010 Installation

emma — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:01:47 +0000

When you upgrade Office 2010 from BETA to RTM, you might get Error 1731 the source installation package for the product Microsoft Office Office 64-bit Components 2010 is out of sync with the client package as shown in this screenshot.

This is because there are still pre-release Office 2010 products installed in system. It could be BETA or RC version of Office 2010 products.

To get rid of this error, simply go to your Control Panel/Programs list and remove all Office 2010 products (including Visio, SharePoint Designer) listed with version lower than 14.0.4763.1000. Once all pre-release Office 2010 products are completely removed from your machine, you will be able to install Office 2010 successfully.

Install Windows Live Messenger on 64bit Windows XP and Server 2003

emma — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:54:14 +0000

Windows Live Messenger cannot be installed on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. It seems that these OS are blocked in Windows Live Messenger setup.

Eventually I found this blog Install Windows Live Messenger 2009 from .msi files. The instruction on this page works well on windows server 2003. It also works on other unsupported OS such as x64 windows XP and windows server 2008