Vista - windows live messenger beta

I cannot uninstall windows live messenger beta. The is no uninstall feature
in "all programs" "windows live messenger beta".

Greetings,

You can manually uninstall Messenger by clicking Start, then Run (if not using Vista),
inputing the following and hitting enter:
msiexec /x {B1403D7D-C725-4858-AACC-7E5FA2D72859}

You can find the other IDs for the other parts of the latest beta applications here on my
blog:
http://messengergeek.spaces.live.com...BDA1!868.entry

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Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
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"t-bone" <t-bone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:CF096C8E-1136-4E18-A6C6-DD6F092F9723@xxxxxx

I input the code and this message appears:

"Windows cannot find 'msiexec/x-{B1403D7D-C725-4858-AACC-7E5FA2D72859}'.
Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a
file, click the Start button, and then click Search."

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

That because you entered it incorrectly. There's a space between the msiexec and /x and no - after the x so it should look like this: msiexec /x {
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©LarryEº
"Dominique" <Dominique@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:8D008222-66E8-49CA-A1E9-71ED065F3FD8@xxxxxx
I input the code and this message appears:

"Windows cannot find 'msiexec/x-{B1403D7D-C725-4858-AACC-7E5FA2D72859}'.
Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a
file, click the Start button, and then click Search."

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

I uninstalled windows live messenger beta. Then I downloaded another one,
intalled it. In the window that appears after the installation is done it
says:

"Start any new program from here, or from the Windows Start menu."

I am unable to start windows live messenger from the window or even the
start menu.



"©LarryEº" wrote:

Could someone please help me?

"Dominique" wrote:

I can't start a new thread. Nothing happens when I click "new" and "question"

"Dominique" wrote:

A message appears saying "This action is only valid for products that are
currently installed". However, when I try to install an older version, it
says I first have to remove Windows Live Messenger...

Initially, the problem was that Windows Live was noy listed in the AddRemove
programs list. So I sent to the Recycle Bin the Windows Live folder to see if
I could install an older version. But still couldn´t. So I deleted the
msnmsr(or similar).exe but this did not solve the problem. I restored the
other files but now I can´t use msn and can´t install any other version.



"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

Problem solved. I downloaded the latest version I could find, which was
luckily newer than the quite new version I apparently had, and I could then
uninstall it following the above instructions.


"Wikiwert" wrote: