Yes. Highlight "Windows Live Essentials" in "Programs and Features" and select "uninstall". Reboot when uninstall completes. Now you can start over with the 2009 install file. Double click it. you can either choose run or save. If you save it you can double click (run) the small file you saved to begin the web install at another time. When you do the actual install, don't forget to uncheck everything except "Mail" since that's is all you want.
Thanks for being so helpful Ronserr... I might give the 2009 version a try myself, if I could be reasonably sure that I wouldn't loose the emails I currently have in WLM. I know there are never any guarantees, but do you know whether, in making this change, the emails would normally automatically be saved and automatically absorbed by the 2009 version? Thanks. Don.
To play it safe you could "export" your messages in the "Windows Live Mail" format to a new folder on your hard drive. That way if they don't show up on the new install, you can "import" them and they will then be imported into your storage folders and can be moved from there. If you have been "signing-in" to WLM, your contacts are saved at "contacts.live.com" and should repopulate your contacts list when you "sign-in" to the new install.
Somewhere on the ribbon in the main WLM pane of the old installation (showing your messages, not the contacts window) there should be the ribbon equivalent of "File/Export/Messages". You may want to make an empty folder on the desktop (or somewhere you can find it later) to use during the export process.
Sorry I sould have been more clear, The PC in question has the newer version and I want to put the 2009 version on it. So I need to save that email.
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