Monday, August 25, 2014

Procedure To Install The Windows Live Essentials Pack

Windows Live Essentials is a group of essential software programs created by the software giant Microsoft Corporation. Using these amazing programs, you can do a variety of things like organizing photos, creating movies and slideshows. Moreover, you can also keep in touch with your friends, relatives and loved ones. So, no wonder, many people wish to install the Windows Live Essentials Pack in their system. This collection of applications offered by Microsoft is actually a free add-on to Windows 7. Windows live Essentials Package includes some exciting applications such as Windows Live Messenger, Photo Gallery, and Mail .Continue reading this Windows Live support article to know how to get the Windows Live Essentials applications you wish to have in your system.

Windows live support instructions you should follow:

  • You can use internet explorer or any other web browser to go to the Live Essentials Download page in Windows 7.
  • In the Live Essentials Download page, you can click on ‘Download’ and then the ‘Save’ button to save the file. The download button is located on the right side of the page. You will see that the Windows Live installer is transferred to your system
  • Thereafter, you need to double-click on the installer to run it. You will now see the Windows Live Installer on your screen. In case, you used a different web browser for downloading the installer file, you might require going to your browser’s download section for finding the installer file.
  • Then, you need to choose the applications that you wish to have in your system and then click on ‘Install’. Some of the popular programs include Windows Live Mail, Messenger, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, etc. When you are done clicking on ‘Install’, the Windows Live Installer displays a variety of choices.
  • You need to deselect all the check boxes and then click on ‘Continue’. In the first choice, Microsoft makes some alterations to your settings. The default search engine in all browsers is changed to Live Search. It even turns off any program that might affect this change. The second box makes MSN website your home page. This change is also enforced in all browsers and internet related programs. The last box involves sending information like lists of songs you listen, your browser history, etc to Microsoft. This is useful for the company to enhance Windows Live services.
  • Ignore it, when the final panel asks to sign up for a Windows Live ID.
Windows Live Essentials are now installed. Enjoy these incredible applications!

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Windows 7 Slated For Extended Support From Next Year

According to Microsoft, many services in their roster will reach the end of their support cycle soon. This bears out that Windows 7 will enter its extended support term from January next year.

All versions of Windows 7 OS, including Embedded Handheld 6.5, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Storage Server 2008, will be shifted to extended support by 13 January 2015. However, this is not the same as the ‘End of Life’, which was handed to Windows XP in April. Windows 7 users will merely cease to enjoy benefits of active development, and will receive only security patches from now on, rather than enhancements and features.

Meanwhile, two other products from Microsoft, Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 Service Pack 3 and Visual Studio 2012, will need the latest service packs installed in order to receive further updates. There are many other products, which will also get to End of Life on the same day as XP, such as Host Integration Server 2004, Systems Management Server 2003, Virtual Server 2005 and Visual FoxPro 9.0.

Many other products will undergo the same treatment as soon as by 14 October, which includes Windows CE 5.0, and Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004. Meanwhile, Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 will need to be updated from SP1 to remain supported.

Last in the line is Windows Phone 7.8, which comprised of a package specifically aimed at fixing problems in Windows Phone 7.5, and will enter extended support on 9 September.

Microsoft has asked users to upgrade or update any product bound to enter the extended support phase in the near future, or get in touch with their system administrator for clarifications. This has prompted a barrage of postings on Windows 7 help desk around the web.

Most end users, however, will remain unaffected by these disclosures. But with things being the way they are around Windows 8, and that the company no longer supports Windows XP they will need to watch how they announce these proceedings. Windows 8 has been widely sauce-panned for the decidedly alien UI it brought in, so how could repeat mention of plans to scrap Windows 7 help? The latter is the one other OS in the line that users favor as much as XP, and may be even more.