I have an XPSP3 system from which I removed several components I didn't need, or so I thought.

The wife wants Messenger installed, but when I try to install Live Messenger, I get:

There was a problem with this installation. Windows Live Suite was not installed.
System error details
Code: 0x80070714
Description: The specified image file did not contain a resource section.

I have repeated this enough times from several different download sources, including using the direct-install file (the normal WLInstaller.exe is a downloader), and copying the exact same file to another PC via network and via CD to know that the file(s) are not corrupt. This is an issue with something I removed from the system.

But . . . what?

And can I restore the components without a reinstall?

Download This Here

And run it. You can select any / all Live applications you want to install

I still get the exact same error. This seems to be some tiny missing piece within Windows, perhaps related to the .NET libraries (although I have uninstalled and reinstalled all three .NET versions).

Do You Need Windows Installer 3.1 To Make It Work??

May Be That It Needs That To Make It Work!!!

Negative. That didn't help.