1. Windows Live Installer Download

As of this morning, March 22, 2017,

Download Windows Essentials 2012 (Wave 5) Full Standalone Offline Installers. Recently Microsoft released Windows Essentials 2012 (Wave 5) (formerly known as Windows Live Essentials) suite to public. Windows Essentials 2012 requires Windows 7, Windows 8 or later and is available in 48 languages including English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, or Spanish. [–]BlueCyber007 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago (0 children). Hashes for Windows Essentials 2012 v16.4.3528.0331 Offline Installer (downloaded from Microsoft on March 4, 2017). MD5: 906689a666d3d9ab4cc951ed6354d0b1. SHA-1: 14e848bd6b69c4c94c65dd87c1cf70bf8f00992d. Nov 03, 2014  Windows Live Essentials, sometimes called Windows Live or Windows Essentials, is a small downloader from Microsoft that allows you to add programs to Windows including Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, OneDrive, Family Safety, Mail, and Writer. Back in the day, you used to be able to simply download each tool individually, but now you need this.

Windows Essentials 2012 download offline installer (Microsoft site) is no longer available.

(March 21, 2017 was the last date the offline installer was available.)

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As this download is no longer available, further daily reports here on availability will cease.

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Windows Essentials 2012

Support Ended January 10, 2017

Although support has ended, Windows Essentials 2012 programs will continue to work.

Windows Essentials 2012 contains the following programs:

Photo Gallery (Windows Photo Gallery 2012 Build 16.4.3528.331)

Movie Maker (Version 2012 Build 16.4.3528.0331)

Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Mail (Version 2012 Build 16.4.3564.1216)

Windows Live Installer Download

OneDrive

Windows Essentials 2012 Installer installs Windows Essentials 2012 Version 16.4.3528.0331

The installer size is 130 MB.

The package shows in installed programs as Windows Essentials 2012.

The individual programs are not shown as installed.

You will not see Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, or Windows Live Mail in installed programs.

Release Notes on Windows Essentials 2012: