Vista - Messenger Service on Vista

I rely on the Messenger Service for networks in XP/2003.
I am not talking about Windows Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or any of
its MSN equivalents which for some reason share the name.

Is there a suitable alternative for Vista?
Is there any good reason it seems to have been dropped?
Is it possible to extract it from XP to run on Vista?

TIA

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Dave Harry

Dave Harry wrote:
> I rely on the Messenger Service for networks in XP/2003.
> I am not talking about Windows Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or
> any of its MSN equivalents which for some reason share the name.
>
> Is there a suitable alternative for Vista?
> Is there any good reason it seems to have been dropped?
> Is it possible to extract it from XP to run on Vista?
>
> TIA

Take a look at http://www.lantalk.net/ for a replacement for Vista. I don't
know if anything there will help and I don't know why the Messenger service
was removed from Vista.

many people turned off that service in XP because of an exploit that used
it.
if you are behind a suitable firewall, I wouldn't have an issue running it.
but Vista is supposed to be secure
so they took out some good things to "be safe"

"Neil Harley" <nomail@home.com> wrote in message
news:1ED1CDA7-827D-4E6F-8F91-395C3A29882E@microsoft.com...
> Dave Harry wrote:
>> I rely on the Messenger Service for networks in XP/2003.
>> I am not talking about Windows Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or
>> any of its MSN equivalents which for some reason share the name.
>>
>> Is there a suitable alternative for Vista?
>> Is there any good reason it seems to have been dropped?
>> Is it possible to extract it from XP to run on Vista?
>>
>> TIA
>
> Take a look at http://www.lantalk.net/ for a replacement for Vista. I
> don't know if anything there will help and I don't know why the Messenger
> service was removed from Vista.
>