{"id":302,"date":"2008-09-05T07:53:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T07:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkesy.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/05\/installing-windows-live-writer-on-vista-64-bit\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T07:53:36","slug":"installing-windows-live-writer-on-vista-64-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/05\/installing-windows-live-writer-on-vista-64-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Windows Live Writer on Vista 64-bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running Vista 64-bit so tried to install Live Writer a while back and got the following error<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parkesy.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/clip-image001.png\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;\" height=\"198\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"http:\/\/parkesy.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/clip-image001-thumb.png\" width=\"418\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>From what I&#8217;ve read it&#8217;s to do with the unified Live installer and not Live Writer <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen a couple of blog posts that mention if you can get the MSI file you can install it ok. Most of these posts had a link to a german site that has the file on it. I wasn&#8217;t too keen to download an MSI file from a site I knew nothing about so decided against that.  <\/p>\n<p>Another post suggested installing Live Writer on a 32-bit system and copy the MSI from there. I tried that and couldn&#8217;t find the MSI so that was scuppered <\/p>\n<p>So I thought I&#8217;d try something obvious &#8211; what did I have to lose? <\/p>\n<p>Download the installer file (WLInstaller.exe) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/writer.live.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Live Writer site<\/a>, right click on the file and click properties then click the compatibility tab <\/p>\n<p>Put the tick in the box to run in compatibility mode and click ok <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parkesy.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/clip-image0018.png\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0;border-top:0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;\" height=\"220\" alt=\"clip_image001[8]\" src=\"http:\/\/parkesy.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/clip-image0018-thumb.png\" width=\"412\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Then run the program as an administrator and it should work! <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m posting this on my Vista 64-bit system from Live Writer so it worked for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running Vista 64-bit so tried to install Live Writer a while back and got the following error &nbsp; 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