How to Uninstall Windows Live
To uninstall Windows Live, what you need to do is closing all its services, deleting each item of the main program one by one and all its registry information.
First to shut it down and uninstall the main program.
Many software developed by Microsoft itself can easily finds their way to firmly combine with your system, some of them are constantly running every time when you start your computer.
This feature is really a hazard for you to totally uninstall Windows Live.
If you ticked all the sub-items in installation, then the following items should be found and you need to terminate them all, apart from the annoying Messenger that pops-up every time: live messenger live call live essentia live sign-in assistant live update tool live sync live photo gallery live mail You should be able to find them in Control Panel, but first remember to have them completely disabled, although not all of them are activated all the time.
And if you are like me, who does not even know where to find them, let alone shutting them down, but really wants to uninstall Windows Live, you may as well try system Safe Mode, in where None of its program will run unless manually operated.
When all the services are down, you may now commence the removal.
However, deleting those items from Add/Remove programs does not necessarily give you a completely uninstall every time, especially when the program is damaged or corrupted.
In this case you must find three directories below: C:Program FilesWindows Live C:Program FilesCommon FilesWindows Live C:Program FilesWindows Live SkyDrive These are where all the remnant of the program are located and unless you erase them and the relative registry entries, you are not likely to successfully uninstall Windows Live.
The problem is these entries are difficult to find and you will properly risk a danger of crashing your PC to use the Registry Editor.
I did not want it so I sought for help.
A small application named Special Uninstaller came as my final solution, With the features of Force and Special uninstall method, I was able to fully remove it by showing Perfect Uninstaller the three directories.
The advantage is, no matter what file/directory you indicate to Perfect Uninstaller, it will scan your computer before deleting the file or directory, "excavating" all associated registry entries and making sure no leftovers escape.
This is real helpful and effective when you don't want to mess up with your registry.
First to shut it down and uninstall the main program.
Many software developed by Microsoft itself can easily finds their way to firmly combine with your system, some of them are constantly running every time when you start your computer.
This feature is really a hazard for you to totally uninstall Windows Live.
If you ticked all the sub-items in installation, then the following items should be found and you need to terminate them all, apart from the annoying Messenger that pops-up every time: live messenger live call live essentia live sign-in assistant live update tool live sync live photo gallery live mail You should be able to find them in Control Panel, but first remember to have them completely disabled, although not all of them are activated all the time.
And if you are like me, who does not even know where to find them, let alone shutting them down, but really wants to uninstall Windows Live, you may as well try system Safe Mode, in where None of its program will run unless manually operated.
When all the services are down, you may now commence the removal.
However, deleting those items from Add/Remove programs does not necessarily give you a completely uninstall every time, especially when the program is damaged or corrupted.
In this case you must find three directories below: C:Program FilesWindows Live C:Program FilesCommon FilesWindows Live C:Program FilesWindows Live SkyDrive These are where all the remnant of the program are located and unless you erase them and the relative registry entries, you are not likely to successfully uninstall Windows Live.
The problem is these entries are difficult to find and you will properly risk a danger of crashing your PC to use the Registry Editor.
I did not want it so I sought for help.
A small application named Special Uninstaller came as my final solution, With the features of Force and Special uninstall method, I was able to fully remove it by showing Perfect Uninstaller the three directories.
The advantage is, no matter what file/directory you indicate to Perfect Uninstaller, it will scan your computer before deleting the file or directory, "excavating" all associated registry entries and making sure no leftovers escape.
This is real helpful and effective when you don't want to mess up with your registry.
Source...