Windows 7 - windows live mail 2011 with Windows Live Messenger 2009

I have windows live mail 2010 and wanted to upgrade to windows live mail 2011 but i dont want to have to install windows live messenger 2011 and would like to keep windows live messenger 2009..

Is there a way i can have windows live mail 2011 along with windows live messenger 2009 (14.0.8117) ?

Hello GBP,

Was there something wrong with Windows Live Messenger 2011 that we could help with so you wouldn't have to worry about using an older version of it?

Here's the most common complaint and solution for it.
Windows Live Messenger - Change to Full or Compact View

While installing Windows Live Essentials 2011, you can choose to only install Windows Live Mail 2011 but you don't have to install Windows Live Messenger 2011.

I dont like it because there are to many features from the old version missing and its bloated, no handwriting feature, nickname status has been made more incovenient..Horrible update this is and definitely dont want it in my computer..

There is no way to just install windows live mail 2011 without having to install windows live messenger 2011..essentials 2011 forces you to install wlm 2011 also,this is not very nice from microsoft..

When you start to install Windows Live Essentials 2011, select (dot) the Choose the programs you want to install option. From here, you will be able to select only the one that you want installed.

Im doing that and when i choose programs to installs it still forces you to download windows live messenger no matter what..There are no options to uncheck where it says the programs that will be installed for windows live messenger or windows live mail..On the bottom it says these programs will be updated.There is no way to do it, it wont let you..

By the way i already have windows live messenger 2009 (14.0.8117) and windows live messenger 2009 installed..I dont want it to force me to update to windows live messenger 2011, all i want is to update to windows live mail 2011..Is there another workaround ?

Microsoft no nonger calls Essentials 2011 "beta" but from all the problems people have been reporting with it (especially Mail), I suspect it still is. Maybe that's why they named it "2011". Perhaps you should uninstall 2011 completely (including Mail) and go back to 2009. Note that the web version installers allow you to download just the programs you want within the package but it looks like you can't selectively upgrade some programs but not others:

Windows Live Essentials 2009
- For XP SP2, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008
Full Version Installer English Language version
http://g.live.com/1rewlive3/en/wlsetup-all.exe
Web Version Installer – English Language Version
http://g.live.com/1rewlive3/en/wlsetup-web.exe
　
Windows Live Essentials 2011
- For Vista SP2 with Platform Update for Vista, Windows 7, and Windows
Server 2008 SP2 with Platform Update Windows Server 2008 R2)
Full Version Installer English Language version
http://g.live.com/1rewlive4-all/en/wlsetup-all.exe
Web Version Installer – English Language Version
http://g.live.com/1rewlive4-web/en/wlsetup-web.exe
　

Ah, I see now.

You will need to uninstall Windows Live Messenger 2009 first, then install Windows Live Essentials 2011 so that it will not automatically update the old version of Windows Live Messenger 2009.

Afterwards, you can use the standalone installed that Ron posted above to reinstall Windows Live Messenger 2009.

I went and uninstalled windows live messenger first, then i installed windows live mail 2011 from essentials 2011 and then i went to reinstall windows live messenger from essentials 2009 and it gave me the error that i couldnt install the program because i already have a recent version of windows live I posted a thumbnail pic of the error below.

Hmm, looks like a catch 22.