Vista - Using Windows Live Messenger

This is sort of a question and a comment. Everytime I open Windows Live
Messenger, before a minute has gone by from being visible, Vista says its not
working, then closes it, giving me no idea why it isnt working and no way to
figure it out. Any advice would be greately appreciated.

The comment part is for the people at microsoft to get their s#!t together.
They delay Vista for so long and it still has bugs so bad as to not give any
idea as to what is wrong with the program.

So tempted to go get a refund...

"Riot" <Riot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Upgrade or clean install?

> This is sort of a question and a comment. Everytime I open Windows Live
> Messenger, before a minute has gone by from being visible, Vista says its
> not
> working, then closes it, giving me no idea why it isnt working and no way
> to
> figure it out. Any advice would be greately appreciated.

Tried closing down background programs? Have you made any modifications to
your hosts file that relate to WLM?

> The comment part is for the people at microsoft to get their s#!t
> together.
> They delay Vista for so long and it still has bugs so bad as to not give
> any
> idea as to what is wrong with the program.

No problems here with WLM and Windows Vista.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:24:08 -0800, Riot
<Riot@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:

>This is sort of a question and a comment. Everytime I open Windows Live
>Messenger, before a minute has gone by from being visible, Vista says its not
>working, then closes it, giving me no idea why it isnt working and no way to
>figure it out. Any advice would be greately appreciated.

I'm mystified as to why people are having this problem.

My suggestion?

1. Uninstall Windows Live Messenger.

2. Go here ---> http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

3. Click on the "Get it now" button to start the download.

4. After you've finished that, close all open programs (and
disable any AntiVirus software running in the background).

5. Double click on the file you just downloaded to start the
install.

6. The rest is self-explanatory.

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