Sorry the language selection is so Eurocentric I could only spend so many hours diddling with it.Free Download Windows Server 2016 Essentials The Archive is a fabulous resource but how it works in this case is not at all clear to me. I included the first links for those interested to see how they are related to the links that actually deliver the files. If you copy and paste the second link into your browser you should get a direct download of the Windows Live (Windows Essentials 2012) installer file in that language. Where there are two URLs for a language, the first one redirects to the second. Here are some Internet Archive links that worked today. Some of the previous links in this thread work and some do not.

0331, is available here:Įnglish (United States) => ( local archive)Įnglish (United Kingdom) => ( local archive)

I personally haven’t tried these, as I don’t run Windows Vista anywhere, but the latest version of Windows Essentials. Someone asked be about the version for Windows Vista. Feel free to grab it, or use the archive. I’ve archived my copy of it here, for future reference.

The Internet Archive came to the rescue, and I was able to download it from there. However, the previous links to download the offline installer, such as, are now dead. Wlsetup-all-en_USSupport for Windows XP from Microsoft has long since ended, and although Windows Update still kind of works (you have to run the “Express” option a few times, and install Microsoft Update, before “Custom” works), attempts to install Windows Live Essentials fail miserably with the cryptic error message “OnCatalogResult: 0x80190194”.ĭownloading the installer manually was suggested on a few sites, however, downloading and running wlsetup-web.exe from Microsoft gave me the same error message on install. Installing Windows Live Essentials on Windows XP – Error: OnCatalogResult: 0x80190194 Unknown bolt |

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