Windows Messenger Refusing to start

[Justin]

I'm trying to get the messenger to start but all it's
doing is blinking for a second (hourglass) and then
nothing. I've uninstalled and reinstalled both 4.7 and
5.0 clients with no sucess. Even taskmgr won't show
anythign about msmsgs.exe. I even gone into the
C:\Program Files\Messenger folder and tried to run it
from there.
Any ideas?

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Justin,

It sounds like it's been deactivated by a registry/GPO setting. To correct this, download
and run these .reg files in the affected account:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/enablewindowsmessenger_user.reg
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/enablemessenger.reg
After running these, reboot and then try opening Windows Messenger again.
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