Use Windows Live Writer from a USB Drive

Posted on March 10, 2010 at 6:30 am

You can blog from absolutely any computer with this trick—which makes this perfect for bloggers on-the-go.

First, download Windows Live Writer Portable and extract the file onto your USB drive.

extract to usb

Click Start then Computer and double-click your USB drive on the list of available drives.

Navigate to the folder called WindowsLiveWriterPortable (you may have extracted to a folder called WLWPortable3, in which case click it instead, then you will see the WindowsLiveWriterPortable folder).

Double-click the WindowsLiveWriter.exe file.

install

A window will appear telling you WindowsLiveWriter.exe was not found. It asks if you would like to copy your local installation of the program. Click yes.

click yes

In the window that opens, navigate to your Windows Live>Writer folder.

navigate to writer

Click OK. The program will then copy your Live Writer files. When it is done, you can eject your USB drive, then open Live Writer on another computer by going to the WindowsLiveWriterPortable folder and clicking the WindowsLiveWriterPortable.exe file.

Just for fun, we tried to install Windows Live Writer Portable to our network drive—it worked like a charm. So, if you work in an office with a virtual hard drive, you can save the Windows Live Writer Portable files to it, then use the program on any computer on the network.

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3 Responses to “Use Windows Live Writer from a USB Drive”

  1. Abomb said on : March 13th, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    Doesn’t Windows Live Writer Portable violate your EULA for the Windows Live suite?


  2. teeweewonders said on : August 30th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    Can I do this from a Macbook too?


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