If you cannot find any of the options above, there are 3 third party tools listed below that can help you to forcefully remove Windows Live Messenger from your computer. Select the first option that says “Remove one or more Windows Essentials programs”, tick the Messenger checkbox and finally click the Uninstall button.Ĭlick the Close button when finished uninstalling the selected program. This is because Windows Live Messenger is installed under the Windows Essentials 2012 program, so you will need to select Windows Essentials 2012 and followed by clicking the Uninstall/Change button.Ģ options will be presented in a window which is to remove or repair the Windows Essential programs. You won’t find Windows Live Messenger listed in Programs and Features, the proper place to correctly uninstall an installed software. Manually uninstalling Windows Live Messenger However if you still find traces of Windows Live Messenger or Skype is unable to remove it, here are some ways to forcefully uninstall Windows Live Messenger from your computer.ġ. Installing Skype should automatically remove Windows Live Messenger from your computer. It may make more sense to use Skype today because Microsoft will one day shut down all their Messenger services and the Windows Live Messenger program is no longer being updated. Microsoft has recently shut down the MSNP18 protocol in March that prevented the older Windows Live Messenger 2009 from working.
#SHOULD I REMOVE WINDOWS LIVE ESSENTIALS PATCH#
While it may seem impossible to use Windows Live Messenger, there are third party methods such as Messenger Reviver that can patch the necessary files in order to allow logging in to Windows Live Messenger 2012. Clicking the Yes button will automatically download Skype to be installed on your computer.
#SHOULD I REMOVE WINDOWS LIVE ESSENTIALS INSTALL#
Although Windows Live Messenger is still available to download from the Windows Essentials 2012 installer, attempting to sign in will always prompt you that a newer version is available and must install the newer version in order to continue. Windows Live Messenger is one of the most successful free instant messaging clients by Microsoft and they’ve discontinued it after 15 years to move their users to Skype which was acquired for $2.6 billion.
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