You’ll see the full name of the service in the tooltip. Once you’re there, you can either view the properties or hover over the file name to see what it is. You can right-click on the processes and either choose “Go to Services” or you can “Open File Location”, which is what we’ll do here. If you’re looking at Task Manager, you should see the two processes at the bottom of the window. You can see in the installer that there’s no way to de-select the Sign-In Assistant: I’m using Pidgin for all my instant messenger needs, and the only Windows Live application that I’ve got installed is Windows Live Writer, which I’m using to write this post.
That’s exactly the problem that I ran into and which prompted this article. Error code 800706ba”.īut Wait, I’m Not Using Windows Live Messenger? In fact, if you disable the services, you’ll get the error message “Signing in to Windows Live Messenger Beta failed because the service is temporarily unavailable. It’s also absolutely required if you’re using Windows Live Messenger.
