How to use Windows 2008 on your laptop

• Follow all the tips from Windows 2008 Workstation site. Microsoft has a KB article also that is useful.
• Get Windows Live Messenger bare MSI from Softpedia (it's a MS-signed installer, worked just fine for me)
• How to get Windows Live Writer on Windows 2008: this was a bit trickier, and involves importing a few registry keys (just copy the registry keys to a .reg file and import it).
  1. First you need a machine with WLW installed. Copy the entire folder to the new machine. I copied it to %ProgramFiles%\Windows Live\Writer, which is where it'd go if I could run the proper installer....

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