Messenger conflict?

Hello.

So after realizing that I was still using the default 1.0 drivers for my nVidia GeForce GTX 260M graphics card, I decided to update. (Dragon Age 2 was crashing for no reason on startup so I tried a few things to get it to work) Anyway, after updating it to version 270.xx, the newest one, it prompted me to restart.

I did, and after I signed back in, I got this error.

I can say without a doubt it was caused by the nVidia driver, and it's an existing issue because I reformatted my computer last time I had this problem. Same computer so it's likely the same conflict.

I'm using Windows 7 64 bit on a laptop. System properties, if it helps.

My question is, is there any way to fix this or should I just never use WLM again?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Just realized this issue is present with all Windows Live Essentials programs. Hope that helps.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Windows Live Essentials like you suggested, and no change. Tried uninstalling the sign-in assistant, and after it told me to restart, I got an error saying the dll for the assistant wasn't present so I couldn't run any of the programs.

I have the newest version of Flash.

So far, no luck, buuuuut, I DID find that Internet explorer somehow got uninstalled at one point. I did reinstall that but nothing changed, unfortunately.

Trying the ZapMessenger option now.


Edit: ZapMessenger didn't work either. D: I don't really know what to do at this point. Games for Windows Live also does not work so I can't play (Or at least can't save or load) any of the games that use that.