I have been trying to keep up with all the new software freebee’s offered by Windows lately.  The Windows Live suite of tools is very useful if you have a computer running the MS Office suite, and want to share files between work and home using Windows Live Workspace Beta.  Also, the Skydrive feature of Windows Live is extremely useful for transferring files between laptops, work, and home computers.

In trying to update my Windows Live programs on my Vista computer, I ran into yet another problem with Windows Vista.  

I wanted to update my installations of Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger, but now, these programs come packaged in a GIGANTIC installer program from Microsoft, that also offers to install a bunch of other stuff you may or may not want to install at the same time as you upgrade your Live programs.  

The install would get about 83% finished, then rollback completely after it got to the Windows Live Photo Gallery part of the installation.

It took days, but I finally found the solution, and posted it here: Windows Live Installer Error 0×80070643