How do I reinstall WLDCore.dll?

I had the same problem, but the prior answers require an unnecessary amount of file-fiddling.  While setting up a new laptop which came loaded with Win 8.1, like many experienced computer users, I immediately loaded in the most essential programs first, such as Windows Live Essentials 2012.   And Live Mail worked fine initially.   However, after several days reloading less critical applications, I eventually developed the exact same problem mentioned above:  WLDCore.dll suddenly went missing.   I'm not sure if the registry got messed up or whether a critical folder was overwritten or deleted by a pre-Windows 7 or 8 program being installed. 

As of 2012 and beyond, this problem is most easily resolved by going to:

(1) the Control Panel*,*

(2) select "Uninstall a Program",

(3) scrolldown to "Windows Live Essentials 2012",

(4) right click on that selection and select "Uninstall/Change".

(5) The first dialogue box will give two options**.** Select**"Repair All Windows Essentials Programs".** After 5 seconds, Windows Live Mail (and presumably all other of its programs) will function normally again**.**I'm not sure if the uninstall program off-loads the necessary files from the web or from a local disk store of the files, so you may need to connect to the internet to do it.   Perhaps a tech can provide some clarification on that point.  

This works with Windows 8.1 and I would imagine any other version of Windows that could have initially run the Windows Live Essentials 2012 setup.   Going to the "Uninstall a Program" control panel is not an intuitively obvious place to fix something without uninstalling it, so I thought I'd mention this easier option.

It's worked.

Thank You very much.

I had same issue. Here is how to fix it. This is easy and works! Thanks to whoever figured it out.

After long day of research, at last I got the solution. It seems the new Windows Live has grouped the wldcore.dll and wldlog.dll (used by Messenger, Contacts and Mail) to a folder c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Shared


Maybe because I did upgrade install it screwed up things.

The solution was simply copy paste those 2 files wldcore.dll and wldlog.dll from c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Shared to

• c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger
• c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Contacts
• c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Mail

Now I can login to Windows Live Messenger and enjoy the whole Windows Live Essentials 2011 products.

I had same issue. Here is how to fix it. This is easy and works! Thanks to whoever figured it out.

After long day of research, at last I got the solution. It seems the new Windows Live has grouped the wldcore.dll and wldlog.dll (used by Messenger, Contacts and Mail) to a folder c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Shared


Maybe because I did upgrade install it screwed up things.

The solution was simply copy paste those 2 files wldcore.dll and wldlog.dll from c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Shared to

• c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger
• c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Contacts
• c:\Program Files\Windows Live\Mail

Now I can login to Windows Live Messenger and enjoy the whole Windows Live Essentials 2011 products.

You are an angel....a very smart angel.  Thank you!!!!

Avtir

Hi,

I had the same problem. Your solution probably works, but I was pretty sure I did not change anything to my installation. So I wondered why this file might have been gone astray. And then it hit me: I had been doing some cleaning up in my path settings. So I added C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Shared back to the system path, et voila...

You can find this setting in Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced System Settings > Environment Variables > System Variables > Path

Good Luck,

Weo

This worked! Very easy fix.

Thank You!