Windows Live Essentials Beta due for release

[cloud8521]

Right click on persons name and add a nickname.

How do I change MY nick name? I can't find the place to

Come Cant Find it anywhere:S

there is no nicknames XD just names

 

[willy94]

How do I change MY nick name? I can't find the place to

Come Cant Find it anywhere:S

there is no nicknames XD just names

f it Going back to the old one

 

[Night Hawk]

What do you mean which installer? Downloaded and installed from Beta website.

There are several different installers you get ... I know there's one that automatically downloads every program and then there's one that lets you pick only the programs you want.

From the login.live.com site you may see the wlsetup.exe or wlsetup-custom.exe files for download and installation off of the finished release site there. There's also a wltoolbar.exe for the Live toolbar as another web installer.

The name for this one however is the wlsetup-webd.exe that downloads direct from the beta site totally separate there.

 

[cloud8521]

What do you mean which installer? Downloaded and installed from Beta website.

There are several different installers you get ... I know there's one that automatically downloads every program and then there's one that lets you pick only the programs you want.

From the login.live.com site you may see the wlsetup.exe or wlsetup-custom.exe files for download and installation off of the finished release site there. There's also a wltoolbar.exe for the Live toolbar as another web installer.

The name for this one however is the wlsetup-webd.exe that downloads direct from the beta site totally separate there.

OLD NEWS, they changed the downloader to wlsetup-webc.exe, it is customizable from the installer now

 

[Night Hawk]

I saw that when the download and installation was proceeding. The other files if stored locally on the drive still work however since this one is intended for the beta version not the already final version presently in use.

For anyone looking for other then Wave 4 those other two would be used or simply going to the live site for either logging in or seeing a new WL id created when going to set up a new account.

The beta version did go on and work but as mentioned way back in the thread saw the tuner card application plus shortcut pinned on the taskbar removed as well as shutting down the existing av program services actually making it unusable. The Live safety scanner may have clashed with the firewall the av program offers when seeing that happen.

 

[Nikolay]

I like the image sharing feature in Windows Live Messenger where you can quickly search for an image and quickly share it in the convo.

 

[Night Hawk]

You also have a file transfer option through the messenger where you can assign your own receiving folder and install the Live Safety scanner to prevent any bugs hopefully from being transferred over from one machine to another.

 

[s31]

if you right click a contact and choose edit contact it comes up with their profile details, you can enter a nickname, sign out of msn and sign back on and the nickname comes up.

not sure how to directly get to that page but everyone will have to enter a nickname in their profile or else it will show full name

 

[G2gCya]

i hate this new beta, there's no block feature, i can't chat to someone while appearing off9. It's so messy. Hope microsoft won't force us to install this when it's due for official release.

 

[mark39]

Does anyone know how to stop messenger from always wanting to connect when I'm browsing an msn site e.g. www.msn.co.uk ?

It's bl***y annoying!!

 

[bigcitycat]

I have noticed that the color changer does not work on live mail. 64bit

 

[swarfega]

I like the image sharing feature in Windows Live Messenger where you can quickly search for an image and quickly share it in the convo.

You can do the same with video as well. Rather neat.

i hate this new beta, there's no block feature, i can't chat to someone while appearing off9. It's so messy. Hope microsoft won't force us to install this when it's due for official release.

The closest you can do is appear offline which isnt satisfactory imo.

 

[Night Hawk]

That's the way it is now with the present WL messenger with the option to appear offline, away, busy, or available.

For the annoyance of messenger wanting to connect as well as the today screen that pops up you cilck to the menu bar and bring down the Tools>Options and click on the sign in item in the list seen on the next screen where the catagories are seen. Notice the auto login when Windows starts as well as the "Allow automatic sign in when connected to the internet" boxes can be unchecked there.

When going to any Live site however the messenger first screen to sign in will automatically appear regardless if you sign in or not. That's how WLM works. The one advantage of grouped icons on the taskbar if you have it pinned there is the right click/close all windows option to close out WLM all at once.

 

[KazeNoKoe23]

Did not like Messenger to be honest.

 

[Night Hawk]

I didn't care for the layout on the beta seen there at all. Despite seeing two other softwares trashed for some still undeterminced cause the beta was run briefly until reverting back.

 

[HTC User]

Hi funny or lucky I have had none of those problems at all I have been playing around with it all day just to see what it will and will not do so far I am more than happy with it.

 

[burtie]

Sometimes messenger or mail fail to start when I click the icon and when I look in task manager there will be multiple instances of it running. I have to individually click each instance and end process before I can click the icon and actually get them to start again. Its bloody annoying!

 

[Night Hawk]

If all three are grouped having it pinned on the taskbar you can simply right click on the icon and select the last item at the bottom being "close all windows". When you select everything with messenger closes out.

When they degrouped however you end up clicking on each one with the first two being stubborn or bring up the taskmanager to settle that fast!

 

[G2gCya]

It's highly non responsive at times too.

 

[imlgl]

Does anyone else keep getting signed out randomly from windows live messenger, its getting annoying as it connects and then after 5-10 mins it disconnects and i have to sign in again.