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[Giagnocavo]Michael::Write()

# Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Windows Live Installer for Windows 2008
I wanted to install the new Windows Live -- Messenger looks better (normal windows instead of custom, yey!). Unfortunately, the installer (wlsetup-web) has an annoying version check. Fortunately, it's nothing OllyDbg couldn't patch.

For the paranoid, you can check it against the original:

>fc wlsetup-web.exe wlsetup-web.original.exe
Comparing files wlsetup-web.exe and WLSETUP-WEB.ORIGINAL.EXE
00019DDD: C3 6A
00019DDE: 90 20

I've only tested on Windows 2008, 32 Bit, English, and I only installed Messenger. But it appears to work just fine. (I had to manually uninstall the current Messenger version first.)

Here's to hoping the final version of the "new wave" of Live removes this check for us. Enjoy!

wlsetup-web.exe (990.5 KB)
Misc. Technology
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:48:06 AM UTC  #    Comments [1]  |  Trackback

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:00:53 PM UTC
Sweet! Your installer hack worked like a champ on my Win 2008 x64 workstation (I too only installed Messenger).

I hope the folks at Microsoft will realize that there are a lot of us out here that take advantage of Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience and use this platform as our workstation of choice (or in my case necessity as I do a lot of dev work using Hyper-V virtual machines). Doesn't mean that we don't like having creature comforts like Windows Live apps, Zune, etc when it's time to play though. They need to remove that OS version check (or at least make it smart enough to detect if the Desktop Experience feature is activated).

Thanks Michael.
Mike Prilliman
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