Windows Essentials 2011

[dan2229]

For about a week now, my Asus laptop running 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium insists on installing Windows Essentials 2011. It tries to install then says that it has failed because "your computer has a different build."

OK, I'm good with that, but then it wants to load again the next day.

I do have a firewall running, but all my other updates do alright.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Daniel

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Try one of these links from Google - It seems to be a somewhat problematic set of tools.

http://www.google.com/search?q="Windows+Essentials+2011"&hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=off

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[linney]

There are a few problems with Windows Live 2011, it might be a good idea to hold off on it unless you really need it.

You could tell Windows Updates to "Hide" the update for the time being.

Hide Windows 7 Updates that you do not Ever Want to Install

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff382716.aspx

Windows Live Essentials Beta 2011- Live Messenger and Live Mail not working

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...s/thread/64526d9a-1cd2-4b37-9084-934b62ee761d

Windows Live messenger 2011 not responding after program start

http://social.answers.microsoft.com...s/thread/8b3c4210-0278-4242-b8ef-5af9cdc4ea5e

Your current problem might be fixed if you temporarily stop Anti virus programs and other security programs from running while doing the download. It might be baulking at the currently installed Windows Live software, which if you like, you could uninstall before updating.

 

[strongm]

>There are a few problems with Windows Live 2011

You're not kidding. I'm amongst the group of people who have suffered problems on W7 64bit; I reverted to the earlier version some weeks ago, and hid the update ...