Windows 10: Windows Essentials 2012 will reach end of support on January 10th 2017

Thanks for the info. I don't need it for anything else, and apparently neither does Movie Maker once installed, so it looks like it's only essential for the installer. I'll bear that in mind if future updates ever stop the installer working completely, but for now it still manages to install Movie Maker despite throwing a few tantrums *Smile

 

mine installed fine with no error codes and works fine

many thanks to all

haven't needed to try the the other prog mentioned but will/have kept the url in back pocket

DME

 

I clean-installed the machine I used to use Movie Maker a couple of weekends ago, using a UUP-to-ISO version of 1803 (17133.1).
So I thought I'd try re-installing Movie Maker from the offline installer.

Before I even attempted that, I installed .NET 3.5 (I had to use DISM for some reason), as I expected problems there.

And I got the error 0x800c0006, which was not entirely unexpected.

But Movie Maker is there and seems to open up OK (not tried to use it yet beyond that).

This was on one install attempt too.

I know this wasn't quite the same as using the 'Official' ISO of 1803, but it suggests it would install with that too when it's released.

Incidentally it installs SQL Server 2005 Compact edition. I reckon this may be why Microsoft was quite so proactive in withdrawing the Live installer, as I suspect old SQL server versions (presumably 2005 is too old to get patches) are probably risky things as far as potential vulnerabilities are concerned,