Messenger Service on Vista

[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

 

[Neil Harley]

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

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.

 

[Not Me]

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"