Windows XP Pro & MSN Messenger 6

[Steve Chatham]

I have MSN messenger 6 on both mine & my wife's computer at home.

I have a wireless base station (Microsoft) hard wired to my PC, and a
wireless Cisco card in my wife's PC. We connect to the internet using ICS.

I downloaded Messenger 6 last night, and installed it on my wife's computer.
It seemed to install correctly - no error message or anything.

However, when I reboot her machine, I'll see Messenger signing in, and then
it'll minimize itself on her systray. When I put the mouse over the icon in
the systray to bring up messenger, though, it leaves the systray. I've
checked tasks, and cannot find it running elsewhere.

I know the permissions are right on her machine, and I have the same version
of the software running on my machine without incident.

Any ideas as to what this app is doing or how to fix it?

Steve

 

[Paul W.]

I've got the idential problem as you. Still struggling.

Paul

 

[Pez]

Hi Steve,

Can you confirm if you have Norton Anti-virus on your
wife's PC. There's a feature in Norton that scans
Windows/MSN Messenger messages. For some unknown reason
this can cause two problesm.

1. Force Windows/MSN Messnger to start in the brackground
when Norton starts.

2. Stop you from quiting and uninstalling Windows/MSN
Messenger.

I think you are seeing issue 1. Try disabling the option
to scan MSN Messenger messages in the Norton Option
screen under Instant Messenger.

Pez