What is Windows Live Essentials? Simply put, it's free software that makes a PC running Windows 7 do more great things. Things like e-mail, instant messaging, photo editing, and blogging.
Windows Live Photo Gallery
With Windows Vista, Photo Gallery comes with the operating system. With Windows 7, Photo Gallery is offered as a free download from Windows Live. That means it’s easier to take advantage of all the things you can do online with your photos. With Windows Live Photo Gallery, it's a snap to organize, edit, and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Create impressive panoramic images from a collection of photos or make your great photos look even better with a wide selection of editing tools.
Finding photos of your friends is a lot easier, because Windows Live Photo Gallery automatically finds the people in your photos so you can add a name to the face. Then later, all you need to do is type in someone’s name to see all the photos of that person. And Windows Live Photo Gallery lets you easily publish to both Windows Live Photos and other popular photo-sharing services. Want to pass photos around? You can order prints directly from thousands of printing services around the world.
Windows Live Movie Maker
With Windows XP, you can get Movie Maker as a free download to use with the operating system. In Windows Vista, it comes along with the operating system. Now, with Windows 7, you get it as a free download through Windows Live Essentials. Windows Live Movie Maker has been designed to make it easier than ever to share your creations with your friends and family and has been redesigned to help you make movies you'll be proud of. Import and combine photos, video clips, and music, and then edit your movie and publish your video creation to the web.
Windows Live Mail
Over the years, you’ve had a few ways to do e-mail with Windows. With Windows 7 and Windows Live, we’re making it a little easier to send and manage e-mail. A free download from Windows Live, Windows Live Mail gives you one place to access multiple e-mail accounts from various providers – Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!. Say you’re offline, but you need to check the address on a party invite you got the other day. No problem. Older messages and calendar events are accessible in Mail, even when you’re offline. And, with “photo mail” built in, you can send photos to friends without clogging their inboxes with large attachments. Instead, they’ll get lighter copies of the photos in their mail along with links to download the full-resolution versions.
Windows Live Messenger
The latest release of Windows Live Messenger is a great way to chat, play games, or share photos instantly, It not only includes a completely new look and feel, but it’s also designed to let you make it your own – you can personalize nearly everything. Add pictures or short videos of yourself that can change with your mood, let people know what music you’re listening to, and customize the scene in the conversation window.
Windows Live Essentials is available from the Windows Live website. The free download includes:
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 Chat instantly with friends and family on your PC or mobile phone. |  Find, fix, and share your photos. |  Manage multiple e-mail accounts (like Hotmail) in one place. |
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 Compose your blog, add photos and video, then post it on the web. |  Turn your photos and videos into great‑looking movies and slide shows. |  Manage and monitor online activities so your kids stay safe. |
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 Search instantly from any webpage. | | |
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