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Windows Live On Microsoft Answers

Sunshine — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:33:37 GMT

Looking for some help with Windows Live? You can now post your questions on Microsoft Answers. They opened up a section/site dedicated to Windows Live Products.

The forum is divided into 4 sections:
- Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, and FrameIt
- Sync and Devices
- Family Safety
- Windows Live Events and Toolbar.

If you are Dutch then head on over to this website. You will find a forum for every single product there. This one has been available for quite a while already, but I just thought I’d mention it ;)

Of course people who want to help out are also welcome on both sites!

MSN China: “prayers and blessings” to earthquake victims

Kip Kniskern — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:46:00 GMT

Our thoughts and prayers go out to victims of the recent earthquake in China, and MSN China is helping to remember those who suffered through the earthquake by remembering them with a Rainbow symbol in front of your nick:

An earlier campaign, one to show support for China in light of all the negative press surrounding the Olympic Torch tour, by including “ China” spread quickly and was very popular in China.

The rainbow is meant to express hope:

According to MSN, the rainbow represents hope and a good things to come: "We [MSN] believe that there is always a rainbow after the wind and rain."

To put the rainbow symbol in front of your nick, first type a set of parentheses (), then fill it in with a capital R – .

(Link to Windows Live Translator version of the MSN China post)

(via Danwei.org)

If you would like to contribute to relief efforts, another blog about China, Lost Laowai, posted instructions on how to place a badge redirecting to the Red Cross Society of China:

64 Bit Systems And The New Live Installer: A Solution

ScottIsAFool — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:37:44 GMT

It has been discovered since the launch of the Live Installer yesterday that there is an apparent bug that prevents it from being installed on 64 bit systems. Now the programs themselves will run on x64 systems, it's the installer itself where the problem lies.

If you are running a x64 system and want to try the new Live builds, there are three suggestions:

Use the Hex editor hack found at http://www.anti-tgtsoft.com/?p=14
If you know someone who has installed the WL Suite, give them the instructions below to get the installers;
If you have access to an x86 machine yourself, download them and get the files yourself.

To access the files, do the following:

Go to C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\WindowsLiveInstaller\MsiSources\
In that folder are all the msi installers for the products you selected to install, we just have to work out which one is which. Fortunately, we can:
Windows Live Writer
Install_{1F973A7F-3FE4-4D11-A9A2-E869C2899A7D}.msi
Windows Live Messenger
Install_{508CE775-4BA4-4748-82DF-FE28DA9F03B0}.msi
Windows Live Sign-In Assistant
Install_{CB5EA99C-8A5B-49F2-9A1A-2EF78BE4DB41}.msi
Windows Live Mail
Install_{EDB619FD-4E71-403C-8E99-DFC9CF9DD345}.msi
Windows Live Toolbar
Install_{C6876FE6-A314-4628-B0D7-F3EE5E35C4B4}.msi
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Install_{AA436FBD-2595-479B-8DDE-E9C36F50D99D}.msi

Running those on the x64 system should bypass the x64 check and they should install for you fine.