I was unpleasantly surprised by Windows Live Writer installation. While with other blog clients ( BlogDesk, BlogJet, W.bloggar etc.) I had no problems at all, every time I got a couple of errors installing Windows Live Writer. Most of the time I get error ‘It looks like you’re offline’ though it was everything ok with internet. Even if I managed to go further I get errors 0x80070641 or 0x80070643.
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After number of unsuccessful attempts I contact Microsoft support and was amazed by quick and polite answer.
This is a follow up regarding your concern on being unable to install the Windows Live Writer. The instructions below are taken from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943595/en-us It will install only Writer but if you got to the KB Article then you can easily modify these steps to add in the remaining suite.
1. If you do not have a local copy of the WLSetup.exe then: get one
2. Create a file called “config.txt” and save it in the same directory that WLSetup.exe is in.
3. In the file “config.txt” copy to the beginning of the file and save it.
p=5DC07600-AAF3-11DA-A746-0800200C9A66*0&t=1&s=0&m=EN-US
Please note that there in the above value there is a ‘&t=1’ that means that you accept our Terms of Usage which can be found here:
a. http://tou.live.com/en-us/default.aspx
b. http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
4. Open a cmd window and change directory to where WLSetup.exe is.
5. Type in the cmd window: WLSetup.exe /silent /configfile: config.txt
Since this will be running in silent mode then you cannot tell that it is done, but it is really quite fast, so wait a few minutes and Writer should be installed for you.
Remember since this is the configuration for Writer then you would not get the rest of the suite. If you would like the entire suite of Windows Live Applications then just run: WLSetup.exe /silent.
We appreciate your continued support as we strive to provide you with the highest quality service available. Thank you for using Windows Live Writer.
Update
I found standalone version of Windows Live Writer. Just double click downloaded file and Windows Live Writer installs like a charm. Make sure you are have not disabled any Windows services (by tweaker or manually) which should be running by default (in Microsoft opinion).
Might be an easy solution to this! Nothing tells you you need it, but you must have .NET installed. You can get it through Windows Update or go to Microsoft.com and search for .NET 3.0 Redistributable. Download .NET 3.0 (I say this as its the latest version and should have all the classes required) and once that has completed, re-run the WLSetup.exe file (it can be the light version rather than the full 50mb one). You will notice that the programs load in now. If only MS told us we needed that in the first place!
Thanks a lot for the standalone installer provided. It made it so easy to install Windows Live Writer. Unnecessarily I wasted time and bandwidth to download Windows Update Services which did not help in anyway. Thanks again.
really thank you for th standalone installer…..
it was an head ache to install it using the default installer…..
microsoft does and error everytime in one way or another, this time it is its installer
Thanks for this post. I have been frustrated trying to install Windows Live Writers for hours. It is ridiculous that Microsoft couldn’t provide good instruction on what the actual requirement is. It would have saved one the stress of trying unsuccessfully to install the software and wasting bandwidth downloading the same installer files over and over again.
Thanks for sharing this, it was a great help.
Wow dude thanx alot. it worked like a charm. really cool man. i had been trying to get my hands on something such a standalone installer. its not that i am a big fan of this thing its just that the wlinstaller anoyed me so much that i decided to find it somewhere as a standalone and install it on my pc. thanx anyway (after installation it doesn’t give any indication of completion, you have to find it in your all programs)
Thank you very much!!!!!!!
Thanks for the standalone WLW, it really help me out.
Thanks so much for the stand alone installer. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m glad I have it in case I have to restore my system again (for some reason, system restore wiped all my recent files) and lose WLW a second time.
I’ve had to install it twice from Microsoft, and it took ridiculously long.
So thanks for saving us all time and bandwidth! 🙂