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01-03-2009
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| | WLM tries to repair itself Each time I wat to open the application, it tries to repair itself. WLM 8.5 and 9 does it and reinstalling them doesn't help. Letting them or stopping the repairing pocess doesn't help too. |
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01-03-2009
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| | Re: WLM tries to repair itself Greetings, By reinstall do you mean a complete uninstall and then installing the exact same version again? If not, that really should work. If that is what you've been doing, then more than likely something is messing around with Messenger. As a workaround, you can head over to the \Windows Live\Messenger folder, right-click the msnmsgr.exe file and choose Create shortcut to manually create a shortcut which should bypass this. You can then move your created shortcut where ever you prefer. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "matmat07" <matmat07@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3777B9AE-1F9B-4905-A612-1AC52664EA65@xxxxxx Quote: > Each time I wat to open the application, it tries to repair itself. WLM 8.5 > and 9 does it and reinstalling them doesn't help. Letting them or stopping > the repairing pocess doesn't help too. |
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01-03-2009
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| | Re: WLM tries to repair itself Strange workaround, but so far it works. And yes, I meant a complete uninstall. "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > Greetings, > > By reinstall do you mean a complete uninstall and then installing the exact same version > again? If not, that really should work. > > If that is what you've been doing, then more than likely something is messing around with > Messenger. As a workaround, you can head over to the \Windows Live\Messenger folder, > right-click the msnmsgr.exe file and choose Create shortcut to manually create a shortcut > which should bypass this. You can then move your created shortcut where ever you prefer. > > -- > Jonathan Kay > Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger > MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger > MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com > Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com > (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation > -- > > > "matmat07" <matmat07@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:3777B9AE-1F9B-4905-A612-1AC52664EA65@xxxxxx Quote: > > Each time I wat to open the application, it tries to repair itself. WLM 8.5 > > and 9 does it and reinstalling them doesn't help. Letting them or stopping > > the repairing pocess doesn't help too. > > |
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01-04-2009
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| | Re: WLM tries to repair itself Sorry for th doublepost, but I don,t know where to edit. IS there another solution you see that could get rid of the issue? |
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01-06-2009
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| | Re: WLM tries to repair itself Hi, Normally I'd say to use ZapMessenger, but that'll do a clean install first (which you've already done) so the current version of that won't work for this. You could try using the Windows Installer Cleanup here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 After installation, just run the utility from the start menu, find Windows Live Messenger on the list and choose Remove. Then install Live Messenger again. Can't guarantee this will work as I really suspect something else is interfering with it. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "matmat07" <matmat07@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:35867935-0248-43E2-BF41-3C43D18BD369@xxxxxx Quote: > Sorry for th doublepost, but I don,t know where to edit. IS there another > solution you see that could get rid of the issue? |
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