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Windows Live Writer, Error during Install?

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I had been trying to install Windows Live Writer for over a month getting several errors and other hindrances and at last now I am privileged to write this first post through Windows Live Writer. Are you among those who are not using Windows Live Writer because you failed to install it? then read ahead as this post might contain solution to your problem.

First I downloaded the installer from get.live.com/writer/. I was initially in an impression that it was WLW installer but it turned up later that the installer is a minimal software titled “Windows Live Installer” and it requires Internet Connection while installation to install WLW and/or other requisite softwares. Now when I tried to install it faced the very first problem… Windows Live Writer requires at least Windows XP SP2 and my XP version dates earlier to release of SP2.

No problem! I decided to download SP2 and thus started my biggest download ever sizing 278,927,592 bytes over a GPRS connection that allows download speed of 2KB-13KB per second. Downloading spanned several days and at last I had the complete SP2 file that I installed only to find that Resolution/adapter settings changed to distort the display. Anyhow I finished with it with proper display only to find another error.

Next, when I tried running the installer, I was greeted with an error message that I require to get Windows Update Agent 5.8.02469 installed. Google search for it unfortunately did not showed Microsoft download site on first page. Solution to this error is posted seperately here. When done the next error message conveyed me that I needed to get Windows Installer 3.1 which did went smoothly as Google SERPs pointed to proper MS page.

Having done all this the installer started up fine. It first requires you to select services/software that you want to install and when done that it checks the system for previous installations, taking time long enough to frustrate you. After it completes the check it starts downloading the Windows Live Writer having approximate size of 5MB. 1% downloaded… 2…90 wow I am nearing finish … 99 ..99… 99 the installer stuck at 99 for infinitely long time showing no errors etc… At last taking the tough decision I cancelled the installation to start all over again… no luck this time too it did not move ahead of 99%. Now I myself don’t believe this but I repeated the process for another 2-3 times and lastly decided that the grapes are sour and that I better get grapes from other locations. I took my last chance to find a direct installer for WLW and luckily got the URL but that turned up to be Windows Live Writer Beta (there was a Beta 2 also, before final release).. that’s fine as better content with something than having nothing.

On running the installer I was greeted with message that the installer requires .net framework installed… that was enough… XP does have .net framework installed… did installer meant .net v2 or above and was it the same reason that resulted in WLW Installation using Windows Live Installer getting stuck at 99%… I had enough of last chances but decided to take another and downloaded .net 2.0 redistributable with SP1 (24 MB), installed it and tried installing WLW beta that finished successfully.

After a second of relief I uninstalled the WLW beta to start again with Windows Live installer to install full version and YES this time it crossed 99% to start actual installation and here I am using it for this post and hopefully for more ahead.

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Written by jalaj

January 24, 2008 at 12:27 am

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  1. Thats great tutorial, I just followed your steps and it works like charm.. greets..

    Jayakanthan

    30 Jan 08 at 7:47 am

  2. We’ve tried using Live writer on our site, but it doesn’t handle the CSS properly. Well, first we couldn’t install it because of the proxy (we were at work). The installer would hang for a very long time and then fail and the error messages are very vague. We also had some issues with text formating and found that it was easier to use WordPress. I wonder if there are any open source desktop publishing programs?

    John W

    8 Feb 08 at 12:11 am

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    20 Feb 08 at 6:25 am

  4. thisssss sickssss it doesnt even workk helloooooooo

    jasmine borges

    18 Mar 08 at 8:22 pm

  5. @jasmine -
    Check for following
    SP2 - Service pack 2 installed or not
    Windows Update Agent 5.8.02469 or later installed or not
    Windows Installer 3.1 installed or not
    dot net framework 2.0 or later installed or not

    After you have all these WLW should get installed…

    Jalaj

    19 Mar 08 at 7:10 am

  6. I cannot install msn messenger

    Azzam

    23 Mar 08 at 8:10 am

  7. well mine is doing the same thing after installing all the stuff that i need.

    this is the thing that i get: sorry, this seems to be taking longer than expected, Please bear with us for a few more minutes.

    to tell you it end up failing and it says i must try again later but i have done it more then 5 times already help

    Tholithemba

    23 Mar 08 at 12:39 pm

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  10. I too was stuck at 99% but then waiting for around 5 more minutes at 10kb/sec, it successfully installed itself.

    jade

    19 May 08 at 3:51 pm

  11. Related to this issue:

    It seems that when running Windows XP SP3 many people are having issues installing windows live applications using the windows live installer. After much googling I have come across a solution. This also solves issues that exist with the windows update service after installing SP3.

    Essentially what you need to do is:

    1. Download and run the Windows Live Installer Cleanup tool from:

    http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/3/0/23036331-516d-4c7e-b9ac-31554a2fec06/WL-Beta-remove.zip

    2. Reboot

    3. Click START>Run and type ‘command’ to load the console.

    4. Type in:

    regsvr32 wups2.dll

    and press enter.

    5. Type exit to leave the console

    6. Download and run the windows live installer, it should now work perfectly.

    Hope this helps.

    -MeggarK

    MeggarK

    4 Jun 08 at 12:18 pm

  12. Thanks for this useful information. I have wasted hours trying to install without success.

    TonyA

    30 Jun 08 at 3:50 pm

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  14. i had that prob. of update agent with downloading th WLMassenger then i followed ur steps n the agent was downloaded successfully..but the problem here is that the installation of WL massenger cant be done!! it is stuck at the step of searching my pc for ( msn and sign-in assistant) and i was notified to try again later.. :S:S what can i do with this??????

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