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Windows Live Essentials error 0x80040609 cannot update it
evening Slartybart, I apologise for not getting back to you sooner but have been feeling a bit off for the past few days with Hayfever and my eyes and head were just not up to trying to solve computer problems....however tonight I started to work my way through your helpful suggestions, but unfortunately still no luck, I followed Eugene R's info and then tried to reinstall it...but still getting the same error message.
I also checked Programs& features option but I have no vestige of Live Essentials left on my computer, because I used Revo Uninstaller to get rid of the program and it removes every last vestige of a program because I thought I was doing the right thing by making sure there was no bits left before I did a clean reinstall of the program, and I have been trying to install all of the features of the program now..not just Live Mail, however there is a bit of luck on the mail front, I have a Laptop that I've had for years but don't use it very often ..so I fired it up and updated it all and it has Windows Mail on it so I am getting my Mail through on it now, so a bit of luck there! I am getting fed up trying to get this blinking program sorted and am now tempted to put my computer back to factory settings....which I have done before on other computers, and I have a click free back up external drive that I back up to, so it would be a big help . however I'm not sure that it backs up programs that were pre-installed in the computer when it was new, I'll have to check on that...don't want to do it if it won't make any difference, so I will continue a bit longer to try and resolve this problem, although when you start to try and find a solution to it you can see by the posts that othesr are having the same problems as me. In the meantime if you find anything else that you think might help I would be pleased to hear from you:) regards Gigi