>I finally was able to uninstall the Windows Live compoments but had to use Revo Unistaller which first tried the application uninstaller (failing as I had) and then went though the registry and disk to sort of force delete the application. I was then able to install latetst version of Live Messenger.
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>Thanks your help which focused me in uninstalling at any cost.
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>Alex


Alex,

You're welcome. I didn't run into any problems with uninstallation, so I don't know why that happened to you. But yes, you were right to uninstall at any cost! :)

Jon