All my contacts status icons are green!!!

[Nick]

I downloaded a few windows updates yesterday (nothing to
do with messenger)and since then when messenger starts up
ALL my contacts status icons show the 'green' online
status for all contacts including all the ones who are
stated as being offline/busy/away etc. I have tried
reinstalling messenger and even upgraded from 6.0 to 6.1
but it's still doing it.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Nick,

Have you updated your video drivers recently (from WindowsUpdate)? If so, what you're seeing
is a bug within those drivers, to correct this, you just need to "roll back" the drivers you
currently have installed. To do so, click Start, then Run, type "devmgmt.msc", click OK,
then right-click your video card, choose Properties, then Driver tab, and choose Roll Back
Driver to go back to the previous version.
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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
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