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Windows Live Writer Portable Version 3

It has been over a year since I posted version 2 of a portable launcher for Windows Live Writer. In that time, WLW has moved out of beta and is now a big part of Microsoft’s Live initiative.

One of the biggest complaints about my portable launcher is that it required you to have Administrator level access on the machine you were running it on. For the most part this isn’t an issue on Windows XP but is big on Windows Vista because of User Account Control (UAC). In shared, locked down computer environments like colleges, this is a big problem and essentially renders the launcher useless. I have finally figured out how to fix that problem and am happy to announce version 3 of Windows Live Writer Portable.  This version does not currently support U3. Truth is, I’ve never really liked U3 taking over my thumb drive. I use the excellent Portable Apps Menu instead. You can put it on anything, not just a SanDisk drive.

Download

The File: WLWPortable3.zip

This zip file does NOT contain everything you need to run Windows Live Writer. This is simply a launcher which will run Windows Live Writer in a self contained environment so you can take everything with you between computers via your USB memory device.

If you do not currently have Windows Live Writer, follow the instructions in the section below titled "Details on installing Windows Live Writer."

If you are currently using version 2 of my launcher, follow the instructions in section below titled "Upgrading from WLW Portable Version 2."

Installation Summary for New users

1. Unzip this file to somewhere on your hard drive.

2. Download Windows Live Writer from: http://get.live.com/writer/overview

3. Install Windows Live Write as usual. You don’t even have to run it, just so long as it is installed. This is fairly straight forward but you might want to look over the details I have written below.

4. Copy ALL of the files FROM C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Writer TO the new structure on your USB drive that looks like the graphic below \WindowsLiveWriterPortable\App\WindowsLiveWriter
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5. You can now uninstall Windows Live Writer if you want.

6. Copy the whole WindowsLiveWriter Portable folder to your USB stick.

To use Windows Live Writer from your USB drive simply double click on WindowsLiveWriterPortable.exe and it will take care of the necessary registry settings and document paths.

Upgrading from WLW Portable Version 2

If you are using the standard, non U3 version, of WLW Portable you simply need to download and unzip the file above.  On your USB drve, replace your WindowsLiveWriterPortable.exe with the one from this zip file. You can then launch the program as you always have.

Details on installing Windows Live Writer

1. Download WLinstaller.exe from: http://get.live.com/writer/overview

2. Double click to start the installer.

3. The next screen will pop up. Accept the agreement.

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4. The following screen will pop up. Unless you want these services you can deselect all of them and click Install

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5. You will be prompted to add other Live services. Choose Writer and any others you want to try out.

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6. Writer will install as well as others you have selected above.

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7. Remember, you do not even need to launch the program. Follow the procedures above and then you can uninstall Windows Live Writer from your machine.



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61 Responses to “Windows Live Writer Portable Version 3”

  1. [...] 08NOV08 Major Update! Version 3 is here! [...]

  2. Hi,

    Thanks for the update! Did you fix the ‘missing drafts’ bug? Cause I’m currently testing a fix I wrote for that…

    Regards…

  3. This is great! I’d given up on the blog, but this makes it a breeze. Thanks.

  4. Thank you for your remind on my blog. I will tell people to upgrade now.

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  11. Thank you for this! I love Live Writer, it makes editing posts sooo much easier than writing them in Wordpress.

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  15. Thank you very much for this awesome tool. Can u write a tutorial to share the skill of making a portable app ?

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  18. Thanks for the instructions. It’s too bad it’s not completely portable and that it requires an install on a local machine to work in the first place. True portable apps don’t leave any information behind on the computer where they’re being used. Hopefully someone can figure out how to make that happen, but we’re probably stuck waiting for MS to determine that it’s an important feature, since WLW is proprietary.

  19. It’s very useful to me. Its defining Portability of my Blog!

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  21. works like charm! you rock, man =D

  22. thank you very much. works like a charm

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  26. hey, great work! however, whenever I start the windowslivewriter portable launcher, I have to go through the setup each time — any suggestions? (it does, however, show my previously posted posts that I created through windows live writer)

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  37. Hi Scott

    I only recently started blogging and found Windows Live Writer a very convenient tool for publishing content to my blog. Your software launcher significantly increases the convenience of publishing as I now carry it on my USB disk. Thank you man!

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  43. I’m having the same problem that James described earlier. Each time I plug in the USB drive I have to put in all the settings again. My first computer, which I used for the installation, is Windows XP. The other one is Vista. The application works on both — it’s just that configuration problem. Does anybody know how to fix this?

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  45. Hi, everytime i move to another computer, i have to re-enter my blog settings (password, url, ..)
    is it possible to have “[user]/Application Data/Windows Live Writer” folder on the usb key too ?

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  50. How do I import all of the existing blogs I’ve already setup on my local copy of Windows Live Writer? I would have expected those to be pulled along with the other files.

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  52. It still leave traces in the registry and user profile. Anyway, it’s ok. Thanks for this app.

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  55. Doesn’t this packaging of the Windows Live Suite violate the EULA from Microsoft? I know it is a free application but this seems wrong to me.

  56. I’m not offering the suite as a download. Just a way for you to take the official download and make it portable.

  57. I like to use it … but how can I write a static page (for wordpress)??

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  60. This is pretty clever, now I feel sheepish having installed Live Writer 3 times on 3 separate PC’s and laptops.

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