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Neerav
hello...this is long but important.please read carefully...
I have windows xp home edition. I have installed sp1. the following were
preinstalled...
1. MSN explorer 6.
2. Windows messenger 4.7
Every time i re-install windows i see to it that i download the update for
windows messenger which it notifies me when i sign in. But then i heard of
msn messenger 6. thinking that it will replace windows messenger on
installition, i downloaded it. I signed out from windows messenger and
exited it from the system tray. after installition i restarted my machine.
but icons for both messengers appeared in the system tray!
moreover when i would use msn explorer it would sign-in in win messenger and
not msn6 and it would also not let me sign in using msn6. so from add and
remove programs i deselected windows messenger. that simply removoed access
to it. in its directory it was still present.
From www.dougknox.com i came accross a tip . it asked me to type a command
in 'RUN'. that thing deleted all files of windows messenger. MSN messenger
remained as ususal. But when i signed in in MSN explorer it asked me to
re-install windows messenger again. I tried to repair msn explorer by
reinstalling it from 'add and remove windows components' from 'add and
remove programs'. but it said a file msgsc.dll was missing from the
messenger directory. i found a similar file in the MSN messenger 6.0 folder
and copy pasted it to the old windows mesenger folder and it worked! now i
was able to use MSN explorer and MSN messenger 6.0 both, but the
'intregrating factor' was lost. now i could not make msn explorer or
outlookexpress automatically sign in to the messenger like before. the sad
part is that www.dougknox.com doesn't say anything about re-installing
windows messenger.
So i want MSN messenger to 'take over' Windows messenger. The MSN messenger
6 website does not mention anything about its compatability with xp even
after choosing the operating system properly before downloading.
Is there a propr explaination for the confusion? will the update to windows
messnegr 4.7 get me all (like associating a picture with my account) that
msn6.0 has? is there any way to re-install windows messenger? system restore
has been kept off :-(
Please email me a copy of the reply u give to the thread at
(e-mail address removed) . locating a reply over a dialup is a mess!
thank you very much for your time.
Neerav
I have windows xp home edition. I have installed sp1. the following were
preinstalled...
1. MSN explorer 6.
2. Windows messenger 4.7
Every time i re-install windows i see to it that i download the update for
windows messenger which it notifies me when i sign in. But then i heard of
msn messenger 6. thinking that it will replace windows messenger on
installition, i downloaded it. I signed out from windows messenger and
exited it from the system tray. after installition i restarted my machine.
but icons for both messengers appeared in the system tray!
moreover when i would use msn explorer it would sign-in in win messenger and
not msn6 and it would also not let me sign in using msn6. so from add and
remove programs i deselected windows messenger. that simply removoed access
to it. in its directory it was still present.
From www.dougknox.com i came accross a tip . it asked me to type a command
in 'RUN'. that thing deleted all files of windows messenger. MSN messenger
remained as ususal. But when i signed in in MSN explorer it asked me to
re-install windows messenger again. I tried to repair msn explorer by
reinstalling it from 'add and remove windows components' from 'add and
remove programs'. but it said a file msgsc.dll was missing from the
messenger directory. i found a similar file in the MSN messenger 6.0 folder
and copy pasted it to the old windows mesenger folder and it worked! now i
was able to use MSN explorer and MSN messenger 6.0 both, but the
'intregrating factor' was lost. now i could not make msn explorer or
outlookexpress automatically sign in to the messenger like before. the sad
part is that www.dougknox.com doesn't say anything about re-installing
windows messenger.
So i want MSN messenger to 'take over' Windows messenger. The MSN messenger
6 website does not mention anything about its compatability with xp even
after choosing the operating system properly before downloading.
Is there a propr explaination for the confusion? will the update to windows
messnegr 4.7 get me all (like associating a picture with my account) that
msn6.0 has? is there any way to re-install windows messenger? system restore
has been kept off :-(
Please email me a copy of the reply u give to the thread at
(e-mail address removed) . locating a reply over a dialup is a mess!
thank you very much for your time.
Neerav