System conflicts? - Help!

[Anonymous]

Pissing you off? Your the fucking problem with this thread!

Now sod off, lets get this back on track, and help me sort this bloody problem of mine out! Which is why I created this thread or have you forgotten that too?

What is there to talk about?, your problem got solved.

[rts]

If you would let me have a word in edge-ways, it would become apparant that my problem has not been solved.

[Anonymous]

Im not saying another word on this thread if im being winded up by arrogant (Par foutu Hymagumba)

[Neil Jones]

I've got this bloody irritating thing where whenever I start running MSN Messenger 6, it suddenly dissappears from my screen, and when you hover the cursor over the icon in the task bar, that too dissappears. Windows Messenger does work, but I want to use MSN Messenger 6 which I believe to be a lot better.

Now I have a huncht hat there is some kind of system conflict, but what conflict exaclty I have no the foggiest. Would anywhere be help to help out, as it is actually driving me bonkers.

Are we talking WinXP? Any clues in your Event Viewer which may suggest why the program is abruptly closing? Programs don't (usually) close for no reason.

A quick Usenet search brings up suggestions of DirectX (and upgrading it), upgrading to 6.1 or later, removing the Messenger cache (see <b><a href="http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en ... 09.phx.gbl" target="_blank">here</a></b> for that)

I also found another usenet post that mirrors your problem. It was never replied to and also dated back to last July.

Also just found: Apparently MSN Messenger is dependent on Windows Messenger for functionality, and from what I can tell the general usenet advice seems to be to install Windows Messenger 5 (note: Not MSN Messenger) which replaces the v4.7 that ships with Windows. I get the impression that MSN Messenger 6 is for MSN Explorer only although I only did a quick search.

Finally: <b><a href="http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en ... 133&rnum=3" target="_blank">this post</a></b> might be of interest as well.

[rts]

Cheers Neil, just had a chance to go through this. I have installed Windows Messenger 5, but this did not fix the problem. Following the link you posted I removed the cache folder but it's still not working.

However I noticed one person say that after eliminating the registry values involving messenger everything worked fine.

How ould I go about doing this?

Cheers!

EDIT I've worked it out, and it appears to be working! I ran regedit.exe and deleted anything with Messenger in it.

Thank you so much Neil! Although I have a new problem, and I think that needs a new thread, lol.

[rts]

Right, MSN Messenger and Mozilla working in Mums bit, but cannot get Messenger working in my area. Opens fine, doesn't disappear, but stalls as soon as I have signed in...

Any ideas?

[Pete]

Have you tried creating a new account and moving all your stuff over to it? My user accounts occasionally corrput. Although that often when I've been "cleaning" them...

[rts]

Well this is bloody irritating. Not working on either log-in now. I've also tried using different passports but that does not work. I know deleting the registry is what got it working in the first place, but does anyone know how to get them back?

I've re-installed Windows Messenger 5 and MSN Messenger 6.2...

[Gavin Scott]

And Mark, Johnny, Gavin Scott could you pleae lock this thread im sick of windup arguing.

There won't be any thread locking here until Row's problem is solved.

Anyway, isn't Barnett on a plane to La La Tinsel about now?

Slightly off topic - I seem to be able to run both Windows messenger and MSN messenger simultaneously with two separate hotmail accounts. Its quite handy, especially for file sharing. Sometimes people can only receive with one version or another.

They (MSN and Windows messenger) seem to file share/videoconference on different ports too, so I can send to different people under different passports.

Have you tried a re-install Row (or was that covered earlier in this thread)?

[Gavin Scott]

Well this is bloody irritating. Not working on either log-in now. I've also tried using different passports but that does not work. I know deleting the registry is what got it working in the first place, but does anyone know how to get them back?

I've re-installed Windows Messenger 5 and MSN Messenger 6.2...

Oh well that's answered my last question.

I'm stumped chuckles.

[rts]

Tried re-installing. Fiddling round with the advise Neil gave, which worked fine earlier. This is really quite odd...