Comments on: Disabling livecall.exe on Windows Live Messenger (WLM)

By: bert

bert — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:33:56 +0000

Can you explain why this works? Does the shortcut indicate when a snapshot of the install directory is valid and any files removed after this time kick off a re-install?

I’d really like to understand the mechansim,

tks – it does work!

By: dscott

dscott — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:57:31 +0000

This method worked perfectly. I couldn’t believe how much faster Messenger logged me in without livecall slowing things up. Thanks Nish.

By: Nish Vamadevan

Nish Vamadevan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:00:59 +0000

I have never installed Norton since 2002! I also carry around Norton Removal Tool for people who wants to remove it… I guess that should explain how much I dislike resource hogs.

Having said that, I used to use Avast, Very good and Now I am using Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 Very nice All-In-One program.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:02:29 +0000

lol, if you are worried about resource hogs, maybe Norton should be on your “Get rid of” list too, lol
but thats just my opinion, AVG has always worked better for me,

By: Tanya

Tanya — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:31:53 +0000

Thanks. It works exactly as ordered.

By: lisa

lisa — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:28:23 +0000

OMG. THANK YOU!
I accidently clicked the stupid icon on the msn toolbar and it installed and and each time I open MSN it triggers my norton to accept the crappy program allow list.. and lags me like CRAZY. now that it’s gone.. it’s back to normall.. THANKS A BUNCH!!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:29:46 +0000

Thanks mate, works like a charm. Beautiful solution to this horrible resource hog.

By: Dll Files Dude

Dll Files Dude — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:05:46 +0000

Works here also… thank you thank you thank you…

By: Nish Vamadevan

Nish Vamadevan — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:07:09 +0000

Livecall.exe is just a small program comes with Windows Live Messenger, Its just there as a marketing tool for users to use Livecall.exe to make phone calls. It will not affect Video / Voice of MSN in any way.

By: Duude

Duude — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:01:44 +0000

is the “livecall.exe” process necessary for video/voice in the msn?

or I have to start the process when I want to use my webcam?