Windows live forced upgrade to 2011?

[TW]Fox · 23 Apr 2012 at 22:06

I downloaded Windows Live Essentials 2009 and installed - but when I login it tells me there is a mandatory upgrade I must install. I go to install it, it spends ages downloading it... and then tries to install Live 2011.

Any way around this?

BigBoy · 23 Apr 2012 at 23:06

Nope.

What is it you want from the Essentials pack? any one thing in particular?

Sin_Chase · 23 Apr 2012 at 23:13

Yeah - Install Pidgin

[TW]Fox · 23 Apr 2012 at 23:20

BigBoy said:
Nope.

What is it you want from the Essentials pack? any one thing in particular?

Just MSN/Windows Live Messenger 2009.

BigBoy · 24 Apr 2012 at 08:10

Then use a different messenger app, there are plenty out there that are 100x better than msn!!

lurkio · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:32

amsn is great
and also has a portable version

flexo786 · 24 Apr 2012 at 20:11

pretty sure if you set the compatability option to windows server windows 2000 its stop the force update as can remember doing it myself a while ago before i just updated it.

Tute · 24 Apr 2012 at 20:32

I run WLM 2009 with XP SP3 compatibility mode and it's absolutely fine (although setting it to auto-run at Windows startup doesn't work).

Azza · 24 Apr 2012 at 20:36

Download it from Ninite and it should be fine.

yashiro · 24 Apr 2012 at 20:59

Ditch the Live stuff and use Trillian or Pidgin.

roadie · 25 Apr 2012 at 17:29

Yeah Pidgin is nice to use.

Haydz · 25 Apr 2012 at 17:51

The only thing that's stopping me uninstalling WLM completely is the lack of clipboard support in Pidgin, you know the sharing of photos and whatnot without actually sending them in WLM.

If Pidgin was to provide that (it maybe already does in a plugin) I'd be using it permanently

yashiro · 25 Apr 2012 at 18:37

Trillian file transfers are put onto a web server then it serves it to the recipient if that's what your looking for. ie you don't transfer them to the other persons machine directly.