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Installing WLW Beta 3 on Vista x64

What did I asked?

I've only wanted to install the new version of Windows Live Writer Beta 3 on my Vista x64 machine, unfortunately the lame installer refuses to run on 64bit machines (maybe because other components may not support x64).

Where is the old working WLW single installer? I don't want the all Live package!

So here is what I did to force the WLW to run on my x64 machine:

  1. Install the lame WLW beta 3 on an x86 machine (XP or Vista)
  2. Copy/paste the "install_dir\Windows Live" folder into Program Files folder (or whatever)
  3. Create a shortcut to "Program Files\Windows Live\Writer\WindowsLiveWriter.exe" on your desktop and start menu
  4. Run it!

If you don't have an x86 machine, you can use VPC, or download a repack, zipped version of the WLW beta3 from here.

Lame solution for a lame installer. IJW!

Use it on your own risk!

Published Friday, September 14, 2007 12:15 PM by Tomer Shamam

Comments

# re: Installing WLW Beta 3 on Vista x64

Friday, October 05, 2007 9:53 AM by ysa

Hi

You can download the writer's msi file (which works on vista x64) from :

<<

www.live-writer.de/.../ct.ashx

>>

hope this helps.

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