Installing Windows Live Messenger 2009 on 64-bit XP

Posted by Martin Perron on Mar 17, 2009 in Featured, HowTo - Windows • 28 comments


Windows Live Messenger

Since Microsoft’s own installer refused to acknowledge WindowsXP 64bit as an appropriate platform to install Windows Live Messenger 2009, we have to find a few tricks to get around the limitations.

  1. Download the MSI file here
  2. Download the Segoe UI Font here
  3. Download Windows Live Communcations Platform here
  4. Download Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime here
  5. Download Microsoft Application Error Reporting (32-bit and 64-bit)
  6. Just drag and drop the Segoe UI font from the ZIP file in step 2 above into your Fonts folder. You can ignore the rest
  7. Double-click on all the other MSI files (step 3, 4, 5) to install them
  8. Now double-click on the Messenger 2009 MSI file to install it.

Voila~! Now you have the new Windows Live Messenger 2009 installed on your 64-bit XP, and ready to run :)

From:  http://micro.foxtwo.org/post/71089074/installing-windows-live-messenger-2009-on-64-bit-xp

Thanks dude!

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  1. Essenceman on Mar 29, 2009, 11:17 pm:

    Yo thanks man…Keep doing your thang!

  2. Dam Acles on Apr 1, 2009, 12:26 pm:

    Well done thanks very much !!!!!!!!

  3. ivanco on Apr 7, 2009, 9:17 am:

    msn e preubaf

  4. Enphys on Apr 11, 2009, 3:42 pm:

    Thanks!!! ;D

  5. Stacy on May 14, 2009, 9:24 pm:

    I have been looking around online for -HOURS- trying to figure out how to get Windows Live Messenger to work on my XP 64 bit. Did what you said to do here and it worked! GREAT job!

  6. Jkwoner on May 29, 2009, 2:17 am:

    OMG THANKS SO MUCH!!!

  7. Stanislav on Aug 12, 2009, 3:24 am:

    thanks so much, it works :)

  8. truth on Sep 2, 2009, 3:42 pm:

    microphone doesnt work in a video call

  9. truth on Sep 4, 2009, 4:09 pm:

    crashes all the time. how do i unistall and go back to the old version?

  10. How to install Windows Live Essentials on XP x64? | Roaming in the computer world on Sep 15, 2009, 12:41 am:

    [...] them will tell you to download some MSI files from Softpedia (for example this post, this post, and this post), which I don’t feel comfortable to do. So I decided to find another way to install Windows [...]

  11. OMG on Sep 15, 2009, 12:17 pm:

    DUDE, YOU ARE MY HERO. EXCELLENt!

  12. Jasson on Sep 16, 2009, 5:28 pm:

    Great! I’ll try.

  13. Jasson on Sep 16, 2009, 5:59 pm:

    Well, there is one easy way, open this page , then do it!

  14. Jasson on Sep 16, 2009, 6:01 pm:

    htt_:/_oss.netfarm.it/

  15. Jasson on Sep 16, 2009, 6:02 pm:

    The web address can’t post, so click me!

  16. Jasson on Sep 16, 2009, 6:04 pm:

    Sry! Click here, on Jasson.

  17. Abdelkarim on Sep 18, 2009, 8:40 pm:

    thx a lot brother, really that’s a great job, great

  18. Robinson on Oct 1, 2009, 10:52 pm:

    Dude, you are the man…Thanks a lot bro.

  19. shuxing on Oct 4, 2009, 4:15 am:

    wow, it worked….thx…

  20. Crasher on Oct 21, 2009, 9:46 pm:

    Crashes all the time except in chating and video chat.

    any help?

  21. Jeffrey on Nov 4, 2009, 9:48 pm:

    Try this post to see if it helps:
    http://www.techproszone.net/blog/index.php/2009/09/14/how-to-install-windows-live-essentials-on-xp-x64/

  22. Gazy on Nov 18, 2009, 12:41 pm:

    Craash all the time except when in offline mode…
    Windows xp 64 bits

  23. Monis Khan on Nov 24, 2009, 10:14 pm:

    THnx buddy for your help
    i followed your steps and now i am using windows live messenger 9 thnx once again

  24. DeeJay on Nov 30, 2009, 2:45 pm:

    THX man , your solution is still working on XP SP2 x64 edition !!!! Good work , keep going !

  25. aceman on Jan 30, 2010, 8:21 pm:

    It works at my XP pro SP2 x64 too. With an error, but it works. My error is the “Windows Live Communication Platform”..

  26. Download Messenger on Jan 31, 2010, 3:23 am:

    Good post man thanks a lot

  27. Rod on Feb 12, 2010, 2:37 pm:

    Dear mate,

    Thank you very much for your useful tips here, I followed it and now have Live installed on my XP64!

    All the best.

    Rod

  28. Kim on Mar 9, 2010, 7:44 am:

    It didnt’ work for me? What did i do wrong?

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