Vista - Why won't Windows Live Messenger launch in Vista RC1?

Yesterday I upgraded one of my XP Pro SP2 systems to Vista RC1. Everything
looks amazing, and runs very smoothly(A lot better then Beta 2, or XP ever
did it seems).

The only real problem I've encountered, is that WLM fails to start. I
double-click it, and get the little circle thing for a few seconds... Then
nothing else happens. No error message, nothing. The application never
starts. But when I look in the process tray, I see that msnmsgr.exe is indeed
running, but the actual program is nowhere to be found.

I've tried many, many, re-installs; XP compatibily mode, you name it. But it
still does the same thing.

has anyone else ever had this problem?

Better yet: Does anyone know how to fix it?

I'd appreciate any information you can offer,

Thanks a lot!

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:04:01 -0700, Patriot
<Patriot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Yesterday I upgraded one of my XP Pro SP2 systems to Vista RC1. Everything
>looks amazing, and runs very smoothly(A lot better then Beta 2, or XP ever
>did it seems).
>
>The only real problem I've encountered, is that WLM fails to start. I
>double-click it, and get the little circle thing for a few seconds... Then
>nothing else happens. No error message, nothing. The application never
>starts. But when I look in the process tray, I see that msnmsgr.exe is indeed
>running, but the actual program is nowhere to be found.
>
>I've tried many, many, re-installs; XP compatibily mode, you name it. But it
>still does the same thing.
>
>has anyone else ever had this problem?
>
>Better yet: Does anyone know how to fix it?
>
>I'd appreciate any information you can offer,
>
>Thanks a lot!

I suggest you uninstall all msn and messengers that you have in your
system and manually delete the folders.

Then download the latest build of live messenger from MS sute and
install it. The version included in vista RC1 is not the latest one
anyway.

Vista RC1 doesn't actually include WLM, it simply gives a link to download it
from.
And I've already tried exerything you've listed. None of it worked.

I finally just did a clean install, and that fixed exerything.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.
"Telstar" wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:04:01 -0700, Patriot
> <Patriot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Yesterday I upgraded one of my XP Pro SP2 systems to Vista RC1. Everything
> >looks amazing, and runs very smoothly(A lot better then Beta 2, or XP ever
> >did it seems).
> >
> >The only real problem I've encountered, is that WLM fails to start. I
> >double-click it, and get the little circle thing for a few seconds... Then
> >nothing else happens. No error message, nothing. The application never
> >starts. But when I look in the process tray, I see that msnmsgr.exe is indeed
> >running, but the actual program is nowhere to be found.
> >
> >I've tried many, many, re-installs; XP compatibily mode, you name it. But it
> >still does the same thing.
> >
> >has anyone else ever had this problem?
> >
> >Better yet: Does anyone know how to fix it?
> >
> >I'd appreciate any information you can offer,
> >
> >Thanks a lot!
>
> I suggest you uninstall all msn and messengers that you have in your
> system and manually delete the folders.
>
> Then download the latest build of live messenger from MS sute and
> install it. The version included in vista RC1 is not the latest one
> anyway.
>

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:08:02 -0700, Patriot
<Patriot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Vista RC1 doesn't actually include WLM, it simply gives a link to download it
>from.

Yes, true and that link is NOT to the last build, thats what I meant.