Entire RSSI love/hate Windows Live Writer
January 3rd, 2009 by KarlI love Windows Live writer and its features. I just hate the small surface of installation. So I have it on my vista Laptop, which was great until I took it off the corp network, and Livewriter stores the configs in my unsynced locations and crashes. So I think lets put it on my other laptop, but its 64bit no go, so lets put it on my dev machine – argg that’s windows 2008 so no go again, then I try to put it on my dev VM, but that is windows server 2003, again a no go. I need to get back to blogging. My blog posts and ideas written in OneNote is just building up (I love OneNote). I’m setting up a XP VM solely for livewriter. That’s how much I love it. I’m willing to put up with its pedantic and give it its own XP VM empire if it will just let me visit and blog.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 am
I completely agree with the frustration. With a bit of searching, you can find that the name of the installer is: Install_{1F973A7F-3FE4-4D11-A9A2-E869C2899A7D}.msi
And with a bit more searching, you’ll see that you can download it from the skydrive of a Windows Live team member here: http://cid-fabdddc5cad93494.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Install%7C_%7B1F973A7F-3FE4-4D11-A9A2-E869C2899A7D%7D.msi
I’ve been running Live Writer on 64-bit Server 2008 for a year+ now, and it works like a champ. It’s just the wrapper/installer for all Live tools that does the version check, not the individual packages.
January 4th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I had problems too with LW. A great tool, but hard to install.
On my Server 2008, I just downloaded the full Live intaller, then used the compatibility tab to say “lie and run as though it was XP” and all was well.
Still can’t get Steve Dunn’s code formatter to work, but oh well.