Windows Live Essentials is a useful suite of programs bundled into one by Microsoft, the suite includes several Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Live Toolbar, Windows Live Writer ^[1] and Movie Maker Beta and Windows Live Family Safety.

Once you install Windows Live Essentials you can make use of the individual programs without problems, but what if you want to remove one of the programs that you installed for example Windows Live Messenger?

If you are searching high and dry in the add/remove programs you may not find any entry for Windows Live Messenger or for that matter any other programs in the suite as they are all bundled under Windows Live Essentials.

Here is a step by step tutorial that will allow you to uninstall individual programs from Windows Live Essentials.

Step 1: Go to Add/remove programs or Programs & features in control panel and find the entry for Windows Live Essentials.

Step 2: In the window that opens up, select the Uninstall option and click on Continue button.

Step 3: When you click on the continue button, you will see a list of individual Windows Live programs that you can uninstall, just select the checkboxes next to the name of the program and click on Continue.

That’s it, the program you select will now be uninstalled from the Windows Live Essentials suite.

This can be used to uninstall Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Live Toolbar, Windows Live Writer ^[1] and Movie Maker Beta and Windows Live Family Safety.