Live messenger forced update not working -> solution

[Tangled-Universe]

Hi,

I just wanted to log in to my messenger and I was notified of a forced update.
The installer(s) didn't work because I use XP64 (weirddd reason).
The error it gave was: os_check: 0x80280004

Googling for the solution showed a burst of this problem since last night.
So for everyone with the same problem, here are 2 solutions:

http://messengergeek.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E3785B1281BBDA1!3406.entry

Cheers,
Martin

[Henry Blewer]

Annoying issue. I wonder if you can install and use it, why would they not support it? Maybe there's a secret 2 bit version...

[Rhalph]

Yeah, I installed XP 64 three months ago and had to do a trick to install it... Then yesterday I had this forced update that I cannot install -_-

Anyway, switching to Windows 7 in a week, thanks to MSDNAA