Why won't Windows Live Messenger work with Vista RC1?

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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!
 
Also: Sorry for the repeated posts. I kept getting an "Error: Try reposting
later" message, and assumed that my posts weren't being submitted.

Heh, apparently they were.
 
all i keep getting is it is due to deb, i have followed the settings but cant allocate msn messengers exe so cant turn the dep off can anyone help me?


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This may help:

Based on your report we understand that as soon as you sign into Windows
Live Messenger, it crashes and you see an error report.
Based on the symptoms you reported, we think this may be caused because you
have an older version of flash on your machine. Windows Live Messenger and an
earlier version of flash are known to have some conflicting issues with Data
Execution prevention enabled on Windows Vista.
Please try the steps below to resolve the issue.
1. Uninstall the current version of Flash by going to the link below and
following the steps in the document.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157
2. Install the latest version of flash by going to
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
3. After installation, restart the computer and then attempt to sign into
Windows Live Messenger.
4. If the issue persists and if you are using an Acer machine, this may
apply to you - We’ve learned that some of our customers that use Acer
computers with the Vista operating system may be experiencing problems
running Windows Live Messenger 8.1. Acer has released a patch that could
help fix this issue. Please refer to the below link for details
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/fo...m/us&siteid=7293&words=all&keywords=&areaid=7
5. If you had any other type of machine and not an Acer and are still
experiencing the issue, please provide us with the following information
a. Make and Model of your vista machine
b. Vista Operating system SKU (Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business
or Enterprise)
c. Output from the tasklist.exe command line tool. Follow the steps below to
generate this information
i. Click on the START Pearl and type in CMD in the search bar and hit Enter
to open the command window.
ii. In the command window, type in the following command exactly as you see
below and hit Enter to execute it.
tasklist /M > C:\runningtasks.txt
iii. After the command is executed successfully, a file called
runningtasks.txt will be created in the C:\ drive. This contains the list of
applications running on your machine at this time and the dlls loaded by each
process.
iv. This list will help us during our investigation to determine what
libraries are loaded and running when you experience this issue.
d. The details of the error report. To gather this information
i. Click the Start pearl, type wercon.exe and press Enter.
ii. Click “View Problem History†on the left side of the “Problem Reports
and Solutions†window.
iii. Scroll down and see if there are any “MSN Messenger†reports or
“Messenger†reports that occurred around the same time the problem you
indicated occurred.
iv. Double click the report and click “Copy to Clipboard†at the bottom of
the dialog.
v. Paste (CTRL + V) the crash information from your clipboard into your
email response to this issue.
6. In addition to the crash report, please attach the runningtasks.txt file
in your response to us for additional investigation.
 
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