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Windows Live Messenger
Why are we supposed to be protected from the terrors of a full download version of these programs? From what I see of people using my public Internet kiosk computers and hear from people buying computers from my business, Messenger (aka MSN, aka Windows Live Messenger) is about the most popular choice. Far more so, it seems, than Yahoo Chat or Google Talk – at least in the home user market that we primarily deal with.
Of course, Messenger is now a full suite of programs rather than just a chat client.
The usual drill applies, judicious use of Google will no doubt find you a link to the full install (I found this one).
When I first tried to set up the unattended install for Live Messenger I found this Microsoft Knowledge Base article and I’m still using this in my current build while I test and integrate the newer version I’ve recently located.
As a result, expect an update to this post detailing unattended installs for Live Essentials sometime in the future.
For now, if you’re happy with the older version detailed in the above MS KB then, using the download URL they offer (which still works, I just checked), you can use this:
WLSetup.exe /silent /configfile: .WLSetup.txt
My WLSetup.txt looks like this:
p=31BB3B1C-5A3D-4E68-82A1-3C166F03C379*0,88459F2D-0CF8-4558-B6AB-6E19B6AC34B0*0,A26D7C8B-875D-48E2-BED1-7168268D022A*0&s=0&h=0&c=0&m=EN-US&t=1
(for an explanation of this config file see the MS KB article.)
(This article is part of a series about the build disc I use to standardise system builds. The series starts here and this particular article follows on from this one.)
