A lot of that could be tied to a corrupt browser cache and cookie files.
It's worth a shot to simply clear the cache and %Temp% folders.
start orb, type:
cleanmgr
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"Nick" <Nick@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have WLM 8.5 installed, I'm running Vista Ultimate 32.
> WLM used to work just fine but for some reason now it wont.
>
> If I sign in using the version that loaded at start up then it works for a
> few mins then freezes up.
>
> If I try opening another copy after that one has frozen, or disabling the
> start up one and trying to open a copy then it loads the msnmsgr.exe in
> task
> manager but nothing ever shows up on screen to let me log in..
>
> I tried running the repair thing from control panel but it gets as far as
> 'gather required etc' and shutting down outlook then nothing happens.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> update #1: I uninstalled WLM, restarted, and tried to reinstall. When I
> try
> to reinstall it says 'upgrading..' then says 'the older version of WLM
> could
> not be removed'
> agh this is really annoying.
>
> (http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z...stallerror.jpg)
>
> it probably has something to do with the fact the control panel still
> thinks
> there is a copy of WLM from 16/3/07, when I try to remove that version I
> get
> the error:
>
> (http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z...tallerror2.jpg)
>
> update #2: I've tried closing all open programs, disabling firewall & AV
> and
> I still cant get it to install
>
> update #3: I think there might be a larger issue, I just tried to open
> windows media player and it does the same as msn did, exe shows up in task
> manager but no window appears. Also when I tried to open event viewer it
> says
> "service unavailable verify that the service is running", when I try to
> start
> the service I get the error: "Windows could not start the Windows Event
> Log
> service on Local computer. Error 4201 the instance name passed was not
> recognised as valid by a WMI data provider."
>
> is there something I can do to repair vista? (preferably not a reinstall )
>