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Jonathan Kay, little help if you please?
It seems most people want Windows Messenger gone out of their lives forever.
I just want auto logon to work after SP2. I don't want MSN Messenger.
Why does XP SP2 state that it ships with the "latest" Messenger 4.7 when 5.0
has been out for so long? I found my 5.0 installs were overwritten by 4.7.
I downloaded 5.1 and installed it. Still no auto-logon.
Do you have any ideas on the auto-logon failue issue? I have yet to see any
mention anywhere of the direct cause for sudden auto-logon failures that
refuse to go away. Any other alternatives would be appreciated.
I had 9 user workstations automatically logging into Windows Messenger.
Then I applied XP SP2 on all of them and now Windows Messenger fails auto
logon on 4 of them. It doesn't even appear to try. Manual logons work fine
amd Windows Messenger works after that.
I have tried the "Sign In As..." automatic logon checkbox. It doesn't
stick. I have tried setting the auto logon checkbox in Outlook Express even
though we use Outlook. I'll try any checkbox which might set some televant
registry entry somewhere.
I have tried removing Windows Messenger with the well-known:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
and reinstallation did not fix it. In fact, running the Windows Messenger
installer after this little suggestion brings up the option of Repair/Remove
with Remove grayed out. Big help that is!
Uninstalling Windows Messenger 5.1 with "msiexec /x
{C3A6819F-62D3-4750-AF1C-28206DDF2C2E}" was successfull, but reinstallation
was ineffective for auto-logon. How about the uninstall product codes for
4.7 and 5.0? What should I look for concerning what might be a permissions
problem affecting auto-logon?
Auto-logon is successful under the local Administrator account. But not the
regular domain user account, which is where I need it. I tried giving the
user Administrator permissions to see if that would have any effect because,
as I said earlier, auto-logon works when I log into the local Administrator
account. But it did not help.
I tried looking in the HKCU registries for the user that works and the user
that doesn't to find something obvious but there are so many bit-level
settings, it's impossible for me to know what might be wrong.
I have tried "removing" Messenger from the control panel's Add/Remove
Windows Components, but we all know that's just cosmetic.
I'm all out of the common solutions. Jonathan, do you, or does anyone have
an informed solution?
It seems most people want Windows Messenger gone out of their lives forever.
I just want auto logon to work after SP2. I don't want MSN Messenger.
Why does XP SP2 state that it ships with the "latest" Messenger 4.7 when 5.0
has been out for so long? I found my 5.0 installs were overwritten by 4.7.
I downloaded 5.1 and installed it. Still no auto-logon.
Do you have any ideas on the auto-logon failue issue? I have yet to see any
mention anywhere of the direct cause for sudden auto-logon failures that
refuse to go away. Any other alternatives would be appreciated.
I had 9 user workstations automatically logging into Windows Messenger.
Then I applied XP SP2 on all of them and now Windows Messenger fails auto
logon on 4 of them. It doesn't even appear to try. Manual logons work fine
amd Windows Messenger works after that.
I have tried the "Sign In As..." automatic logon checkbox. It doesn't
stick. I have tried setting the auto logon checkbox in Outlook Express even
though we use Outlook. I'll try any checkbox which might set some televant
registry entry somewhere.
I have tried removing Windows Messenger with the well-known:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
and reinstallation did not fix it. In fact, running the Windows Messenger
installer after this little suggestion brings up the option of Repair/Remove
with Remove grayed out. Big help that is!
Uninstalling Windows Messenger 5.1 with "msiexec /x
{C3A6819F-62D3-4750-AF1C-28206DDF2C2E}" was successfull, but reinstallation
was ineffective for auto-logon. How about the uninstall product codes for
4.7 and 5.0? What should I look for concerning what might be a permissions
problem affecting auto-logon?
Auto-logon is successful under the local Administrator account. But not the
regular domain user account, which is where I need it. I tried giving the
user Administrator permissions to see if that would have any effect because,
as I said earlier, auto-logon works when I log into the local Administrator
account. But it did not help.
I tried looking in the HKCU registries for the user that works and the user
that doesn't to find something obvious but there are so many bit-level
settings, it's impossible for me to know what might be wrong.
I have tried "removing" Messenger from the control panel's Add/Remove
Windows Components, but we all know that's just cosmetic.
I'm all out of the common solutions. Jonathan, do you, or does anyone have
an informed solution?