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Roberticus.
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- 17th August 2009 at 20:54 #43774
Hello –
Has anyone successfully installed and run Windows Live Messenger on W2K8 R2?
When I launch the app, nothing happens… I’m using the latest version.
I got Live Messenger to work on W2K8 SP1, then when I installed SP2 and it broke…
The in-place upgrade to W2K8 R2 worked, but Live Messenger is still broken.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
- 17th August 2009 at 21:39 #48939
Yep, it’s running fine here. I just installed it using the default installer (wlsetup-custom.exe) which can be downloaded from http://get.live.com/. You can also install it without using that live-products installer by directly downloading the Windows Live Messenger msi from download.microsoft.com. If installing doesn’t work for some reason, right click the installer (Messenger.msi / wlsetup-custom.exe) and choose Troubleshoot compatibility whereafter you follow the wizard.
After installing I only had one issue: it refused to minimize to the system tray. To solve this run the application (msnmsgr.exe) in compatibility mode Windows Vista SP2.
Good luck!
Arris
- 25th August 2009 at 16:41 #48940
@Arris wrote:
Yep, it’s running fine here. I just installed it using the default installer (wlsetup-custom.exe) which can be downloaded from http://get.live.com/. You can also install it without using that live-products installer by directly downloading the Windows Live Messenger msi from download.microsoft.com. If installing doesn’t work for some reason, right click the installer (Messenger.msi / wlsetup-custom.exe) and choose Troubleshoot compatibility whereafter you follow the wizard.
After installing I only had one issue: it refused to minimize to the system tray. To solve this run the application (msnmsgr.exe) in compatibility mode Windows Vista SP2.
Good luck!
Arris
Even though this topic is about a week old, I just wanted to state that the reason WLM doesn’t go to the system tray is because Windows 7 has it set like that so R2 would have it like that, too. You have to use the same fix Arris said in Windows 7 I’ve heard.
- 14th September 2009 at 20:56 #48941
Hello, new here 🙂
I got WLM installed along with the rest of Windows Live Essentials. My problem is that I can’t chat with anyone in WLM :/, shows me this:
“The following message could not be delivered to all recipients”.Firewall issue?
Thanks in advance,
Robert 🙂
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