How to make the Windows Live Installer works to install on unsupported operating system (only Windows XP SP2/SP3 and Windows Vista is supported),

In order to make the Windows Live Installer works to install on unsupported operating system (only Windows XP SP2/SP3 and Windows Vista is supported), use the hack below to remove the OS check from the unified Windows Live Installer executable so that it will “support” installation on unsupported OS:

1. Download Resource Hacker or XN Resource Editor
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2. Run the Resource Hacker or XN Resource Editor.
3. Open the Windows Live Installer executable (WLSetup-All.exe or WLSetup-Web.exe).
4. Locate CONFIG -> CONFIG0 -> 0.
5. Delete and remove the following XML code, and leaving the rest of the text intact:


6. Compile the script and save the modified executable.
7. Run the modified executable, and the Windows Live beta wave 3 software applications can be installed anywhere on any OS and operating system check is now removed.

For user who no need to install the app in workstation environment, there is another hack. The hack is similar to the trick above, using exactly the same steps, except that on the OS validity check XML code above, don’t remove the text. Instead, change and replace the workstation value of the “os productType” to server. After saving the binary, voila, the full or web installer can now works on a server OS.