What can cause 1/2 of a Windows Messenger conv to be blocked?

[david.karr]

At my company, we use mostly WinXPSP1. We have Windows Messenger 5.1
(on my laptop, at least).

We use Windows Messenger a lot. Quite often I run into a situation
where I'm talking to someone on WM and they stop replying to me. I
then see in my email box a note from that person saying that it
started saying "could not deliver" when replying to my messages. When
this happens, the only thing I can find to fix this is to sign out of
WM, which closes all my existing WM windows (which is a real pain
sometimes).

What can cause this, and is there something we can do to resolve this?

 

[Raybo]

Try this :-

Verify that the Microsoft Cryptographic Services Service Is Started

To verify that the Cryptographic Services service is started (and to start
it if it is not):

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type cmd, and then click OK.
3. At the command prompt, type net start cryptsvc, and then press ENTER.
4. Type exit to quit Command Prompt.

Register .Dll Files

Re-register the following .dll files:

Softpub.dll
Wintrust.dll
Initpki.dll
Dssenh.dll
Rsaenh.dll
Gpkcsp.dll
Sccbase.dll
Slbcsp.dll
Cryptdlg.dll

To do so:

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type cmd, and then click OK.
3. At the command prompt, type the following lines and press ENTER after
each line:

regsvr32 softpub.dll
regsvr32 wintrust.dll
regsvr32 initpki.dll
regsvr32 dssenh.dll
regsvr32 rsaenh.dll
regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll
regsvr32 sccbase.dll
regsvr32 slbcsp.dll
regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll

4. Click OK when you receive the message that DllRegisterServer in FileName
succeeded.
5. Type exit to quit Command Prompt.

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi,

Again, this has nothing to do with this problem.

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Associate Expert
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[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi David,

Have you been using the handwriting feature at all? If so, this is a known problem and the
only real solution is to the avoid using ink.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

 

[david.karr]

Hi David,

Have you been using the handwriting feature at all? If so, this is a known problem and the
only real solution is to the avoid using ink.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Experthttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources -http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

No, I've never used the handwriting feature (didn't even know about
it).

If this helps at all, I think this happens when I've let an IM window
sit around idle for "a while". I don't think it's ever lost it while
I'm in the middle of a conversation.

Note that I'm pretty sure other people in our network run into this
same problem.

 

[Raybo]

Hi,
Again, only offering a solution. Nobody appears to have come up with one
yet.