Microsoft Security Essentials or popularly also named as Windows Security Essentials is built upon similar scanning engine and virus definition as other Antivirus product of Microsoft. MSE 4.5 did not support on windows XP, but MSE was offered built-in in windows 7 and windows vista.

The version prior to 4.5, was Microsoft security essential for windows XP. Before version 4.5, MSE used to be operated on windows XP, windows 7, windows vista but not on windows 8.1. Initially Microsoft security essentials 29 September 2009. as a built-in security program for providing protection against different species of malicious software, including computer viruses, Spyware, rootkits, and Trojan horses. You get the option to install all programs included in the bundle or only select programs.Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is an Antivirus Software developed by Microsoft Inc.

The installation itself is straightforward but you may run into issues installing the programs on Windows 10. Downloads were not super-fast when I tried regardless of the method that I selected to download the installation file. The download is provided as a web and torrent file, and the file itself has a size of 130 Megabytes. The reason why that is important is that web installers will fail as Microsoft removed the files they require to complete the installation.

Offline copy means that you can install the application suite directly setup requires no Internet connection and won't download any data from Microsoft as a consequence. You can download an offline copy of Microsoft Windows Live Essentials 2012 from. While some programs don't work at all anymore or only limited, others, like Movie Maker or Photo Gallery, work fine and provide all the included functionality. Windows Live Essentials requires at least Windows 7 but it runs fine on newer versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system including Windows 10.

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