Comments on: I Miss My Windows Live Writer

By: Joe Cheng [MSFT]

Joe Cheng [MSFT] — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:29:31 +0000

Jason–please e-mail me at joe.cheng *AT* microsoft.com. Thanks.

By: Jason Bean

Jason Bean — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:51:01 +0000

I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled, rinsed and repeated. Don’t know what the deal is.

By: Joe Cheng [MSFT]

Joe Cheng [MSFT] — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:48:13 +0000

Try uninstalling the Tech Preview before installing the new version. Don’t worry, you won’t lose any settings or data.

By: Jason Bean

Jason Bean — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:44:48 +0000

Joe the new installer didn’t work for me. Any ideas?

By: Jason Bean

Jason Bean — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:34:52 +0000

Oh that’s beautiful! Can’t wait! Thanks Joe!

By: Joe Cheng [MSFT]

Joe Cheng [MSFT] — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:27:57 +0000

I’d hold off until later today, when all new versions of the Windows Live apps will be released, including Writer. The new installer is much more robust.

When they go live they will be here:
http://download.live.com

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:22:03 +0000

You should try posting the issue here:
http://groups.msn.com/windowslivewriter They are very good at replying normally.

By: asudduth

asudduth — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:19:02 +0000

Jason – I HATE that error message… it basically is saying there is no associated text with that event ID… probably because someone @ MS didn’t do their Job ;)
My first piece of advice when any software installation fails is usually delete everything from the TEMP folder, then reboot, and try again…
However a quick Yahoo leads me to:
http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/906080.htm where someone reports this may be a DLL registration problem in SP3 — do this to re-register:
Start > Run > regsvr32 wups2.dll
(personally I’d run it from a CMD prompt…)