Vista - Cannot initialise Windows Live Messenger

I have just downloaded the latest version of Windows Live Messenger, but
unfortunately it will not run.

Error message:
The application failed to initailize properly (0xe06d7363). Click OK to
teminate.


Any ideas?

Greetings,

Unfortunately this one isn't a known one and there isn't much debug output you can get for
this. You may want to try booting Windows into safe mode as a starting point to see if it
works there.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"Insel_Haber" <Insel_Haber@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C5AF53ED-B830-4823-81F9-41F24F38B2C4@xxxxxx

Interestingly I was able to start Messenger from the MSN website by
clicking on the Messenger link on top. Furthermore messenger starts
automatically from "run" entry in the registry without problems. But
when I click on the shortcut to start it from desktop it gives the
same error. In the past I never had this problem. If messenger is
already running it simply switched to it if I clicked it again. I
suspect that some file is being locked when Messenger starts and
starting again will not allow to access the file second time. I
believe this is a bug and would like others to check and confirm
this? I am running Messenger 8.5.1302.1018 Version...
Good day and thanks for the feedback.


On Mar 22, 6:20*pm, "Jonathan Kay [MVP]"
<msnewsrepl...@xxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

What happens if you go into the \Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger folder and run the
msnmsgr.exe executable directly there? If that works, just make a new shortcut to replace
the old and that should be a suitable workaround.

The default shortcut created is a Windows Installer shortcut as opposed to a direct one, and
its initialization might be the only problem.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"OneWorld4All" <akayhasan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:b55541ec-a088-48b8-acb6-025cd81a70ee@xxxxxx

Good thinking but I have enough experience about these things that I
already tried it. The Run entry points the the same executable as
the shortcut. I tried both running from the original location or the
shortcut with same result. Another interesting tidbit is that if I
close Messenger and try to start it again it gives same error. So it
must be leaving a process in memory that prevents it running
again....Go figure????
I never had this problem with the earlier versions of Messenger...



On Mar 24, 8:05*pm, "Jonathan Kay [MVP]"
<msnewsrepl...@xxxxxx> wrote: