Messenger Service on Vista

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Dave Harry

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
 
Dave said:
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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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"
 
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