Введение
В статье описан процесс удаления и повторной установки Windows Live Essentials.
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Удаление Windows Live Essentials
Чтобы удалить программы Windows Live, выполните следующие действия в зависимости от используемой операционной системы.
Windows 7 или Windows Vista
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Нажмите кнопку Пуск , а затем выберите пункт Панель управления.
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В разделе Программы нажмите Удалить программу.
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В списке Удалить или изменить программу нажмите Основные компоненты Windows. и затем Удалить/Изменить.
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Нажмите Удалить одну или несколько программ Windows Live.
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Выделите программы, которые нужно удалить, и нажмите кнопку Удалить.
Примечание Чтобы полностью удалить Windows Live Essentials, выберите все программы Windows Live.
Windows XP
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В меню Пуск выберите Панель управления и дважды щелкните элемент Установка и удаление программ.
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В списке Установленные программы выберите Windows Live Essentials и нажмите Удалить.
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Нажмите Удалить одну или несколько программ Windows Live.
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Выделите программы, которые нужно удалить, и нажмите кнопку Удалить.
Примечание Чтобы полностью удалить Windows Live Essentials, выберите все программы Windows Live.
Переустановка Windows Live Essentials
Чтобы получить последнюю версию Windows Live Essentials, посетите веб-сайт корпорации Майкрософт:
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Need Space in PC or only want to remove or uninstall windows live essentials On PC ( Windows 7, 8, 10, and Mac )? but how to, after it still having files in C: drive? If the application run on the pc, windows 7, 8, & 10 so you can uninstall using Control Panel or CMD Or If this applicaion run in Mac so you know that how to uninstall in MAC. With the help of this article, you will able to uninstall or remove or kick out all of those files also after uninstalling the windows live essentials.
Are you bored, or tired of using windows live essentials? Now, wanna remove this software from your PC ( Windows 7, 8, 10, and Mac )? There is no condition to follow up before installing, so, you can remove it without getting any confusion about it.
There are 10 methods that users can adapt if they want to uninstall windows live essentials :
Method #1
- Go to Start Menu, then click on the Control Panel.
- In Control Panel, under programs, go through the list of the ones that are installed on your computer
- Right-click on windows live essentials, and then click on uninstall a program
- Follow the prompt on the screen, and you will get to see a progress bar that will take you to remove the windows live essentials from the computer.
Method #2
The second method involves uninstaller.exe, through which windows live essentials can be uninstalled. Just follow the instructions below to execute this step:
- Go to the installation folder of windows live essentials.
- Find a file that is named uninstall.exe or unins000.exe
- Double click on the file, and then follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
Method #3
The third method involves System Restore. For those who don’t know, System Restore is a utility, which helps the user restore their system to its previous state. System Restore removes all those programs, which interfere with the operation and performance of the computer.
If you have created a system restore point before you installed windows live essentials, then you can use this software to restore the system, and remove such unwanted programs. However, before you do so, make sure that you save all the important data.Follow the steps below to know more from this method:
- Close all the files and programs, which are currently running on your PC
- Open Computer from the desktop, and then select Properties
- System Window will open
- On the left side and click on System Protection
- System Properties will open.
- Then do click on the option of System Restore, and a new window will again open.
- Now, choose the ‘different restore point’ option, and click on Next.
- You have to select a date and time from the given options; when you select a date, the drivers that you installed after the chosen date won’t work.
- Click on Finish and then Confirm the ‘Restore Point’ on the screen.
- When you click Yes to confirm, the windows live essentials would be uninstalled.
Method #4
If you have an antivirus, then you can use it to uninstall windows live essentials.There is much malware or windows live essentials software in the computer applications that we download nowadays. They have become very difficult to remove from the system, like Trojan and spyware.
- If you cannot remove windows live essentials with the above methods.
- It means that there is malware or windows live essentials in it, and only a good antivirus can be used for removing it.
You can either download Norton Antivirus or AVG antivirus, as these are reputable software and will surely remove the malware, windows live essentials on the system.
Method #5
If you want to uninstall windows live essentials, then you can do so using Command Displayed in the Registry. A registry is a place where all the settings of Windows, along with information, are stored. This also includes the command to uninstall a software or program.
You can try this method with windows live essentials as well, but it is a very risky method. If you make any mistake and delete the wrong information, then the system is most likely to crash. It would become difficult for you to bring it back from deletion.
To execute this method, To follow the steps given below:
- Hold Windows + R together, and then Run command
- When the command box opens, type Regedit in the box and then click on OK
- You have to navigate and find the registry key for the windows live essentials
- You will see an uninstall string on the next window; double click on it, and also copy ‘Value Data’
- Again hold Windows + R keys, and run the Command; paste the value data that you just copy and click on OK
Follow what comes on the screen and then uninstall windows live essentials.
Method #6
The seventh method is to uninstall the windows live essentials using a third-party uninstaller.
At times, those who don’t have any knowledge of computer language, won’t be able to manually uninstall the software fully.
Many files occupy the hard disk of the computer, so it is best to use third-party software to uninstall them.
Method #7
There are some codes that users can type into the command prompt, and they would be able to uninstall the windows live essentials. For example, if they want to remove the package, then just type.
sudo apt-get remove windows live essentials
If you want to uninstall windows live essentials and its dependencies as well, then type:
sudo apt-get remove –auto-remove windows live essentials
For those who don’t know, some of the dependencies of windows live essentials are GCC-5, libc6, libgcc1, windows live essentials dev, and gc++-5.
Method #8
If the user wants to remove the configuration and data files of windows live essentials, then they need to run the following code on the Command Prompt:
sudo apt-get purge windows live essentials
Method # 9
It depends on you that are you willing to kick-out the data or you want to remove the configuration data or data files, along with the dependencies, then the following code is most likely to work for you:
sudo apt-get auto-remove -purge windows live essentials
To uninstall windows live essentials on mac because anytime we need space or only want to remove from pc due to some viruses and also many problems which are needed to remove or uninstall from pc.
So I will show you some steps of uninstalling windows live essentials on the mac so follow my this step or method if you have still confusion so you may contact with us for uninstall of windows live essentials on pc or mac.
How to Uninstall windows live essentials on Mac?
For uninstalling windows live essentials on the mac so as I told you that there is a simple method to uninstall apps on mac. As there are installed some apps on your Mac and now you want to remove or uninstall from your pc successfully and want to install some other apps on my mac so follow my these steps to uninstall windows live essentials on mac.
Method #1
In method 1, you have to open mac on your pc as I’m showing in the image follow the images to uninstall windows live essentials on your mac.
In the image, there is a windows live essentials app on your mac dashboard and now we have to uninstall it from our mac we will uninstall this app and will remove it in of mac now double-click-on-app showing in the image.
Now you double-clicked on the app mac will ask that are you sure to uninstall windows live essentials click on the Delete button so go to Trash of mac to uninstall completely from mac. Showing in image trash bin click on trash bin and go inside there will be windows live essentials which we had to delete before so have to uninstall completely from mac.
Not right-click on trash to remove all data or app which we had uninstalled before seeing in the image. Click on Empty Trash the whole data which is in the trash will auto remove successfully.
Now we uninstalled windows live essentials on the mac so as you see that how to uninstall or remove any app on the mac so if you liked this so share once. This method doesn’t require any antivirus or uninstaller software from them we are to uninstall.
I described only a simple method of uninstalling windows live essentials on mac. This method more people are using but some people take it is too hard uninstalling in mac but in this step, anyone can understand this simple method.
How To Install?
For those who don’t know much about windows live essentials, they might lean more towards uninstalling it. These windows live essentials create an environment, where users can create a high GPU-accelerated application. If you want to install this windows live essentials, then make sure that your system is compatible with it.
Firstly, verify that the system you are using has a windows live essentials capable GPU, and then download the windows live essentials. Install it, and then test that the software runs smoothly on the system. If it doesn’t run smoothly, then it could be because its communication with the hardware is corrupted.
Conclusion
There are other methods of uninstalling the windows live essentials as well as in pc or windows, but these could be difficult for those, who don’t have much technical expertise. Execute these methods, and they will surely work. These methods don’t require the user to have much knowledge of the technical side of an operating system. They can follow simple steps and uninstall windows live essentials.
My laptop came with lots of software including Windows Live Essentials. I think I don’t need it and I want to uninstall it but finally I find I can’t do it. Is it necessary to run Windows 7 on my laptop? If I uninstall it, what will happen? Is it a serious issue for my computer? Will my computer go wrong? Please let me know anything about it if you know. Anything help will be highly appreciated.
Something about Windows Live Essentials
What is Windows Live Essentials? It is a suit of free applications from Microsoft that provides integrated e-mail, instant messaging, photo- sharing, blog publishing and security service. It could help windows users to keep in touch with their family or close friends and do more things with Windows on their computer conveniently. It is designed to integrate well with Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft web-based services like Outlook.com. When you have this Windows Live Essentials on your computer, you can use your computer more smoothly. But on the other hand, it can take up your computer resources. It can somehow affect the performance of your computer. And if you uninstall it, you are still able to run Windows on your computer and it can be replaced with other components. Furthermore, you may get trouble in updating some programs. You may get many duplicates of Windows mail, Windows photo, Windows movie maker and so on then you would like to uninstall the Windows Live Essentials. Want to uninstall Windows Live Essentials completely but don’t know how? Let’s see the way below.
The way to uninstall Windows Live Essentials from your computer
To uninstall Windows Live Essentials completely from your computer, you should know that it is not as simple as it seems. If you want to remove it from your computer completely and effectively, enough computer knowledge is really needed. If you are lack of computer knowledge, I advise you to contact someone who is good at computer for help. If you are good at computer, please follow the steps below to completely remove Windows Live Essentials from your computer.
Firstly, to remove Windows Live Essentials from your computer, please click on “Star” >> click on “Control Panel” >> click on “Programs and Features”
Secondly, find “Windows Live Essentials” then right click on it >> choose “Change/uninstall”. Then please follow the prompts to finish the process of removal.
To remove Windows Live Essentials completely, clearing out all residue is needed. In order to clear out all the leftovers about it, you should open Registry Editor and delete the related registries.
Conclusion
Running Windows 7 doesn’t require Windows Live Essentials and many windows users want to uninstall it. It is not a really necessary free application that created by Microsoft to help windows users use their computers smoothly. It allows Windows users to edit and share pictures and personal videos, manager email, publish blogs and access files on multiple computers. These are the good aspects but there are also the annoying aspects. When you update some programs, you may have a lot of duplicates of programs like Windows mail, Windows photo, Windows movie maker and so on. To fix this problem, you would need to uninstall Windows Live Essentials or originals. To uninstall Windows Live Essentials, you can go to control panel and find it then uninstall it. In addition, you need to delete the related registries to do the complete removal.
NOTE: Struggling in uninstalling Windows Live Essentials for a long time? Or even don’t know how to uninstall it? Contact online expert for help now! They are all ready and glad to offer assistant to you.
Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on September 27, 2016 1:47 pm
Sometimes you have to uninstall Windows Live Essentials to troubleshoot when you are trapped into compatibility problems. Windows Live Essentials is a suite of freeware applications created by Microsoft that aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, and security services. The Windows Live Essentials Pack is available as a free download except for four major applications from previous versions of Windows like Windows Live Messenger, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, and Windows Live Mail, it also along with seven new applications. Windows Essentials applications can be installed on Windows 7, Windows 8. Previous versions are also available on Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
Although the Essentials program are designed to integrate well with each other, many computer users want to uninstall Windows Live Essentials pack for they are suffering from many troubles when they are trying to update the program by the demanding of the prompt that says you need to download Windows Live Essentials to update my msn messenger and hotmail. However, the download of the target program can result in duplicating a lot of programs like windows mail and windows photo, movie maker etc. Later after that, you would have a lot of duplicates of all these so that you have to uninstall Windows Live Essentials or originals to deal with these troubles. Taking Windows Live Essentials for instance, I would like to introduce several methods on how exactly to do to uninstall Windows Live Essentials.
Uninstall Windows Live Essentials Pack on Windows 7 and Windows Vista
First method:
A: Click on Start menu-> Type program/ uninstall a program in search box and hit enter key-> Click on Uninstall a program from the results list.
B: Locate and click on Windows Live Essentials->Click on Change/Uninstall
C: The Setup Wizard pops-up. Click “Remove” option.
D: Select “Complete uninstall” option to uninstall the software. Click on Next button
E: You will be prompted that it says please verify that you are ready to remove all components. Please click on “Remove” to proceed to the next step.
F: You will be required to reboot your computer to apply system changes and then finish the uninstall Windows Live Essentials. Please select “Yes” to immediately reboot it.
Second method: Manual way to uninstall Windows Live Essentials program.
A: Click on Start button-> Click on Programs-> Click on Accessories-> Click on Command Prompt.
B: Next, right click on Command Prompt, Select run ad administrator.
C: You can type below commands into the cmd black window to uninstall Windows Live Essentials pack. Please notice any required space.
• (64-bits) “c:\program files (x86)\windows live\installer\wlarp.exe” /cleanup:all /q
• (32-bits) “c:\program files\windows live\installer\wlarp.exe” /cleanup:all /q
D: After the un-installation has been finished, it may pop-up a dialog box to prompt you.
E: Restart your computer to effect all changes.
Uninstall Windows Live Essentials Program on Windows XP
First Method:
A: If you are using Windows XP, click the Start button and open the Control Panel.
B: Double-click Add or Remove Programs and wait for the list of currently installed programs to be populated.
C: Click on Windows Live Essentials and click the Change/Remove button.
D: Follow the required wizard to uninstall the target program like the steps mentioned above.
Second method: Manual way
A: Click on the Start button-> Click on Run
B: In the Run dialog box, enter C:\Program Files\Windows Live\installer\wlarp.exe then press Enter key.
C: Next screen with prompting message asks you whether you want to uninstall Windows Live Essentials, you need click uninstall.
D: Select the Windows Live programs that you want to remove and click Continue.
Click close after the un-installation has been finished.
E: Restart your computer.
Uninstall Windows Live Programs on Windows 8
First method:
A: San your mouse from right edge to the middle of light and then click Search box.
B: Type “uninstall” in Search box and then click on Settings.
C: Click on Uninstall a program
D: Click on Windows Live Essentials pack, click Uninstall/Change-> Continue-> If it is needed, type in the required password.
E: Follow the demanding of un-installation process to get the removal finished.
Second method: Manual way on Windows Live Essentials removal
A: Open Search box
B: Type wlarp in Search box and click on Apps.
C: Click on wlarp, select “Remove a program”.
D: Select on Windows Live Essentials and click Uninstall.
E: The left steps are same as above.
Clear out All Leftovers about the Windows Live Essentials
Besides all steps mentioned above, additionally, one more significantly essential step needed to do to completely uninstall Windows Live Essentials is to clear out all leftovers including its left files and registry entries. To do like so you can maintain your computer performance mainly aiming at averting from duplication fragments.
A: Open local disk where the Windows Live programs installed. Locate its folders and delete them.
C:\Program Files\Windows Live Essentials (64 bits)
C:\Document and Settings\All Users\Application Data\)
C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data\ Windows Live Essentials (64 bits)
B: Open Registry Editor. By typing “regedit” in search box or Run window and pressing enter key to reveal Registry Editor.
C: Highlight My Computer and find below registry entries as follow and delete them.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Windows Live Essentials (64 bits)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\eg ui
Extra Tip
If you have tried each of the above steps to remove Windows Live programs but no avail, you can contact with VilmaTech Online Support that they may offer you more pertinence suggestions to uninstall Windows Live Essentials or other Third-Party Windows programs.
Published & last updated on October 30, 2013 by Erik V. Miller
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Windows Essentials (formerly Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live Installer) is a discontinued suite of Microsoft freeware applications that includes e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing, blogging, and parental control software.
The last available version is the 2012 Windows Essentials that has been somewhat stripped to include includes Microsoft Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, SkyDrive now called OneDrive (desktop application), Writer, and Messenger. However, Microsoft discontinued its support on January 10th, 2017.
If Windows Essentials fails, you will want to repair it using its installer. If that fails to function properly, the next logical thing would be to uninstall Windows Essentials and then install it afresh. Here is where the problem comes up. Several users report that after uninstalling Windows Live using the programs and features window from the control panel, running the installer only gives the possibility to choose applications to install, but not repair or remove. If you choose to install, the installer says that everything is installed and working OK but it seems like nothing installed at all or the problem persists. So the question is – how can you completely remove the whole of windows essentials 2012 so that you can reinstall it without the installer not finding an “already installed” pointer?
This is a common problem with corrupted previous Windows Essentials files. The issue can be caused by corrupt files in the registry or corrupt files in the program’s files folder. Here are the ways we have prepared to help you remove Windows Essential 2012 and reinstall it afresh.
Method 1: Uninstall Windows Essential 2012 using Command Prompt
To fix this we recommend that you uninstall the application using the CMD line parameter this is different from uninstalling the application via the control panel. This will clean out all related files of your Windows Essentials that are stored in your system. To do this, please execute the steps below:
Step 1: Run the Fix it Tool
This troubleshooting tool by Microsoft will look for uninstalled programs from your registry and try to force them to uninstall. It will remove bad registry key on your operating systems and resolves problems that prevent programs from being completely uninstalled and blocking new installations and updates. If you had tried to uninstall Windows Essentials by deleting its files in program files, this step will come in handy.
- Download Fix it Tool from Microsoft here.
Download Fix-It Tool From Microsoft - Double click on the troubleshooter file you downloaded to run it
- Click next when the troubleshooter launches and wait for the scan to complete
- You will be asked whether you want to uninstall a program or install it. In our case, select ‘uninstalling’
- The program will scan the PC and give you a list
- Select Windows Essentials if it appears on your list and click next. If you don’t see windows essential, you have an option of using the product code
- Click next and then select Yes, try to uninstall’ and let the troubleshooter run.
You can rerun the troubleshooter and select ‘Installing’ to troubleshoot problems that are preventing programs from installing.
Step 2: Uninstall Windows Live Essential via Command prompt
Unlike the control program uninstallation, this will clear all Windows Live Essentials files. Below are the steps on how to uninstall Windows Live Essentials via the CMD line parameter.
- Press the Windows key, type Command to search for the command prompt and in the results, right-click on Command Prompt and then click on Run as administrator.
Running Command Prompt as an administrator - Run the following commands to uninstall Windows Live Essentials:
- For 64 bit Version:
C:\program files (x86)\windows live\installer\wlarp.exe /cleanup:all /q
- For 32 bit Version:
C:\program files\windows live\installer\wlarp.exe /cleanup:all /q
- For 64 bit Version:
- A dialog box shows status until uninstallation has completed
Method 2: Run Windows Live Essentials Uninstaller
- Navigate to the following path as per your installation
- For 64 bit Version:
C:\program files (x86)\windows live\installer\
- For 32 bit Version:
C:\program files\windows live\installer\wlarp.exe
- For 64 bit Version:
- In the folder, find the wlarp.exe file, right-click on it and then click on Run as Administrator.
- Follow the instruction on the screen to complete the uninstallation.
- If you cannot find the wlarp.exe, then download Windows Live Essentials offline installer from Wayback machine. You will not find it on Microsoft because it is no longer supported therefore it is not available for download.
- Double click to run it.
- Select features to uninstall and finish the uninstallation.
Method 3: Delete the Windows Live Folder
If nothing has helped you, then try to complete the above 2 methods within Safe mode or use clean boot Windows. Even then you are having issues, then follow the steps below with Safe Mode or use clean boot Windows.
- Open File Explorer and navigate to the following path
- For 64 bit Version:
C:\program files (x86)\
- For 32 bit Version:
C:\program files\windows live\
- For 64 bit Version:
- Find the folder Windows Live and delete it.
- Click the Windows button, type Control Panel and in the resulting list, click on Control Panel.
Open Control Panel - Now click on “uninstall a program“.
Uninstall a Program - Now, look for “Windows Live Essentials“, select it and then click “uninstall“.
- Now follow the instructions on the screen to complete the uninstallation process.
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