Or, if you want an offline installer in other languages, go to, click Download, cancel it, then click Try Again. Windows Live Essentials ONLINE English Installer - 1 megabyte bootstrapper.Windows Live Essentials OFFLINE English Installer - 134 megabytes total.

I'm not sure if they are version-specific downloads but I will try to keep them up to date. They are current as of the writing of this blog post. Long story short, here's direct downloads for the Windows Live Essentials English Language ONLINE and OFFLINE installers. This takes a little while, but may work better, depending on your connection settings.' 'Trying again downloads a standalone installer to your computer. However, if you cancel the download immediately, there's a 'Try Again' button and some text that no one (including me) reads: It will then go and download just the programs you want.

Rather than offering a small link for 'offline installer' or a choice, you have to click Download which will attempt to start a Download of Windows Live Essentials online bootstrapper. Then I figured out this bizarre bit of UI on the Live Essentials download page. I Googled with Bing, and then Googled with Google for things like 'Windows Live Offline Installer' and found nothing but confusion. I went to and searched all over, looking for an offline installer. However, they only have dial-up and wanted an offline installer I could just put on a USB Stick (I actually figured I'd put it on their camera's SD Card.) His wife mentioned she wanted to make a quick DVD of the pictures and movies we took, so I suggested Movie Maker. My brother and his wife came over today and the kids went trick or treating. UPDATE 2015: Here is the offline link for Windows Live Essentials 2012.

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