Cesar_E and ALL at Microsoft
What you all seem to be missing is that this is affecting people like myself who do not actually use Windows Live Essentials software but find it was installed as some point and Microsoft released a patch that has caused this issue. I have managed to resolve the problem by removing Windows Live Essentials 2012. I assume there was some form of testing done before the patch was released? If so what is the roll back plan on the change control for the patch and why has it not been invoked, from what I can see many people are having serious issues with this and may be paying out money to unscrupulous vendors who are basically un-installing the software to fix the issue.
Get your acts together please and resolve this 1 way or another, this is beyond acceptable now and needs to be sorted, quick.