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Solve : Cannot Uninstall Windows Live Essentails On Vista?

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Hi, my sister is over for the weekend and she uses Windows Vista on a laptop, and ever since she UPDATED Windows Live Messenger nothing in it seems to be working right, so at this point we figure we are better off to uninstall EVERYTHING related, like Windows Defender, windows mail, windows live, and messenger COMPANION.....
From browsing the net, I have read that the only good way to do this is to get rid of them all at one time, so when I try to do this I get:
'We couldnt remove: Windows live mesh, mail, messenger, messenger companion.
'An unknown error occured.
Error 0x80070641
source: live remoteservice-amd64

I tried looking up this error on google but couldnt find anything, does anyone KNOW what the problem may be and how to fix it? I'm at my wits end, been trying to figure this out all day, although I do admit I know pretty much nothing about Vista, I'm a XP user, any help would be great, or her computer may end up thrown off my balcony! 
Oh yeah, also ran superantispyware and malwarebytes before posting, didnt find anything with those....
Thanx!Why not to: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-uninstall-ui?ppud=4&wa=wsignin1.0 ?Thats exactly what I did, and thats when I get the error I mentioned above..... Try this: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvr3rdpartyapps/thread/80e098d1-3466-4c6e-8ba2-ee196814b650I tried that already before starting this thread, and I get the error's I mentioned above, this is why I dont understand this error, most of these programs dont even give you the option of removing them on their own, just the way that link describes.....
Let me try it again.....Try to reinstall Windows Live Essentails over the top.But that seems to be the thing that screwed up everything in the first place, if we can ever get rid of this stuff, we would like to install old VERSIONS of this stuff, the new versions seemed to start the problems.....How about using system restore to some date before the issue started? Quote from: Broni on October 23, 2010, 04:23:28 PM

How about using system restore to some date before the issue started?
Well, the problem seems to be when she has tried system restore twice now, it makes things worse, like IE keeps freezing up, windows messenger works even worse, ect, also when she tried to install a later version of messenger, it wont let her and automaticly installs the latest, that doesnt work, also windows installer doesnt work, so we now need to know which installer version we need for vista SP2, the installer she says we need first......
Sorry this is alot to throw out, wish I could figure this stuff myself......It looks to me, like that Windows installation is somewhat whacked.
Do you have/can borrow Vista DVD.
We could try repair installation.I assume we cant to a repair installation without the Vista DVD?
Is there another way around that? (I'm personally thinking no)Not really, unless you want to back up all data and reinstall Windows, using recovery partition, or recovery DVDs.OK, thanx for the help Broni..... You're very welcome You may want to see here...


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