Windows Live Messenger Will Not Open

That worked perfectly! Thank you very much for finding that.

I really appreciate everyone's help :)
 

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That worked perfectly! Thank you very much for finding that.

I really appreciate everyone's help :)

Your Most Welcome ! Thank you for posting back !
 

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Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit | Windows 8 Pro - 64-bit
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8 GB
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NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M 2GB Graphics, Optimus™ techno
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SoundAlive™ JBL 3 Speakers (With sub-Woofer)
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1,600 x 900, Anti-Reflective
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1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5,400RPM)
wlm

Hello

Strange thing I just got the same error in windows 7 64bit

I dont know what has caused it but I did a install / uninstall a few times with no luck, Ill have to try the long way of deleting items from my reg and ect in the next day or so but its nice to see im not the only one getting this error...

the only thing i can think has changed on my computer is set to automatic windows updates and I believe that adobe had a update as well yesterday

I also installed starcraft 2 when it came out 2 days ago but msn was working adter that

very strange
 

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windows vista 64
Hmm. That seems to have only worked temporarily... it worked fine last night for a few hours and stopped working this morning. Re-did the steps provided by Capt.Jack Sparrow and it worked again for two hours before shutting down and refusing to start up.

What steps should I take from here?
 

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Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
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Intel Core2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz
Memory
4.00GB
Graphics Card(s)
Mobile Intel 4 Express Chipset Family
Sound Card
DIT High Definition Audio Codec; High Definition Audio Devic
Screen Resolution
1366 x 768
Hello,

Do you have any add-ons for Windows Live Messenger like Smileys, Games etc. If you have any uninstall them go to Programs and Features and check and see if you have any. Check this article for more assistance Windows Live Messenger is not Responding - Windows Live

Hope this helps,
Captain
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Samsung NP550P5C-S02IN
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit | Windows 8 Pro - 64-bit
CPU
Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 3,610QM (2.30Hz, 6MB L3 Cach
Memory
8 GB
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M 2GB Graphics, Optimus™ techno
Sound Card
SoundAlive™ JBL 3 Speakers (With sub-Woofer)
Monitor(s) Displays
39.62cm (15.6) SuperBright 300nit HD+ LED Display
Screen Resolution
1,600 x 900, Anti-Reflective
Hard Drives
1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5,400RPM)
If this were a standing problem, we'd all be having the same issue, and it would be all over the net... Are you using the beta release?

No Iam not, I bought a brand new HP with Windows 7 and its doing it on there. Phoned HP and they got me to completely restore laptop to factory settings.

I have an older laptop that has windows Vista, so as I was so peed off with the new laptop went back to using old one and the MSN had been working fine, then same friggin message!!!! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! MSN made me update to the newer version and since then its happened. Please help cos I have a Dad in UK 78 and its the only way we get to "see" each other.:cry::mad:
 

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Vista Home Premium
If this were a standing problem, we'd all be having the same issue, and it would be all over the net... Are you using the beta release?

No Iam not, I bought a brand new HP with Windows 7 and its doing it on there. Phoned HP and they got me to completely restore laptop to factory settings.

I have an older laptop that has windows Vista, so as I was so peed off with the new laptop went back to using old one and the MSN had been working fine, then same friggin message!!!! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! MSN made me update to the newer version and since then its happened. Please help cos I have a Dad in UK 78 and its the only way we get to "see" each other.:cry::mad:


Shelley you should have started a new post as each one of these WLM problems is different.
Have you heard of Skype which is free statewide not sure of UK.
 

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MS wireless Inteli
I'm having the same problem shelley748, any fix yet?
 

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I am having the same problem. Both my laptops one with windows 7 and other with vista get same message
"a problem has caused live messanger to stop working" and closes the program
 

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windows 7 home premium
From talking to friends it seems that XP is not having this problem. It definitely has to do with this new Hotmail, that's for sure, but how to fix it is beyond me. I tried uninstalling and reintalling, it does nothing. I thought of a system restore but that would retore the old Hotmail, that got done without my knowledge. I never knowingly installed any 'new' Hotmail, it just happened. Have you tried anything at all to fix it?
 

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Hello,

Do you have any add-ons for Windows Live Messenger like Smileys, Games etc. If you have any uninstall them go to Programs and Features and check and see if you have any. Check this article for more assistance Windows Live Messenger is not Responding - Windows Live

Hope this helps,
Captain

No dice on this, either :( I'm doing a third clean installation, however, so maybe that will last. I will update in the morning and see if WLM is still working.
 

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Hewlett-Packard/HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU
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Memory
4.00GB
Graphics Card(s)
Mobile Intel 4 Express Chipset Family
Sound Card
DIT High Definition Audio Codec; High Definition Audio Devic
Screen Resolution
1366 x 768
From talking to friends it seems that XP is not having this problem. It definitely has to do with this new Hotmail, that's for sure, but how to fix it is beyond me. I tried uninstalling and reintalling, it does nothing. I thought of a system restore but that would retore the old Hotmail, that got done without my knowledge. I never knowingly installed any 'new' Hotmail, it just happened. Have you tried anything at all to fix it?

Come to think of it, it did seem to stop working right around when Hotmail changed. It may have something to do with the fact that you are able to access your contact list and chat with people through the Hotmail webpage? I've done a system restore and that didn't fix WLM for long.
 

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Hewlett-Packard/HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz
Memory
4.00GB
Graphics Card(s)
Mobile Intel 4 Express Chipset Family
Sound Card
DIT High Definition Audio Codec; High Definition Audio Devic
Screen Resolution
1366 x 768
i've found out if you dont have the (remember me, and remember my password) options clicked on you can sign in and out without any problem, its when just 1 or both options are clicked that WLM FU**'s up. but that means you have to type your sign in name in and password everytime you want to log on
 

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windows 7
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AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual core processor 4800+ 1.40GHz
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Not sure, and dont know how to find out
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4.00GB ram
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NVIDA GeForce 9800 GT
Sound Card
Realtek AC'97 Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Generic PnP Monitor/ Sony 17" flat panel lcd HS74P
Screen Resolution
1280x1024 (Recommended)
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not sure and i dont know how to find out
Keyboard
compaq
Mouse
logitech wireless mouse
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DSL
i've found out if you dont have the (remember me, and remember my password) options clicked on you can sign in and out without any problem, its when just 1 or both options are clicked that WLM FU**'s up. but that means you have to type your sign in name in and password everytime you want to log on

I'll try this, although it's not a case of not being able to sign in or out... it's a case of not actually being able to open the program.
 

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Hewlett-Packard/HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz
Memory
4.00GB
Graphics Card(s)
Mobile Intel 4 Express Chipset Family
Sound Card
DIT High Definition Audio Codec; High Definition Audio Devic
Screen Resolution
1366 x 768
got to hottmail.com it self and sign out completely and when you go to sign back in it should let you unclick those options, atleast it did for me.

hope it works for you too
 

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OS
windows 7
CPU
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual core processor 4800+ 1.40GHz
Motherboard
Not sure, and dont know how to find out
Memory
4.00GB ram
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDA GeForce 9800 GT
Sound Card
Realtek AC'97 Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Generic PnP Monitor/ Sony 17" flat panel lcd HS74P
Screen Resolution
1280x1024 (Recommended)
Hard Drives
not sure and i dont know how to find out
Keyboard
compaq
Mouse
logitech wireless mouse
Internet Speed
DSL
Hello,

After clean install try this version. It's the Beta Windows Live Messenger beta if nothing works then create a new Windows user profile and test it under that account and see if that works. If that fails then i would say you can go for an Alternative messenger like Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks

- Captain
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Samsung NP550P5C-S02IN
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit | Windows 8 Pro - 64-bit
CPU
Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 3,610QM (2.30Hz, 6MB L3 Cach
Memory
8 GB
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M 2GB Graphics, Optimus™ techno
Sound Card
SoundAlive™ JBL 3 Speakers (With sub-Woofer)
Monitor(s) Displays
39.62cm (15.6) SuperBright 300nit HD+ LED Display
Screen Resolution
1,600 x 900, Anti-Reflective
Hard Drives
1TB S-ATA II Hard Drive (5,400RPM)
windows live messenger stopped working

I just checked my Norton scan history and I see repeatedly the same thing. I have no idea if this is relevant or not. It says...

unused port blocking has blocked communications. Inbound TCP connection from remote address local service port.

Does this make sense to anyone?
 

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OS
Windows 7
Hello,

After clean install try this version. It's the Beta Windows Live Messenger beta if nothing works then create a new Windows user profile and test it under that account and see if that works. If that fails then i would say you can go for an Alternative messenger like Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks

- Captain

It looks like Beta is functioning properly. It has been installed for over an hour and is still working. I was able to exit and re-open it with no problems. It's ugly as hell, but it works ;) Thank you so much for all of your help. I'll post back if something goes wrong.
 

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Hewlett-Packard/HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz
Memory
4.00GB
Graphics Card(s)
Mobile Intel 4 Express Chipset Family
Sound Card
DIT High Definition Audio Codec; High Definition Audio Devic
Screen Resolution
1366 x 768
windows live messenger fixed

I have finally got messenger fixed although I did several things and am not quite sure which one did the trick.

I went to the control panel and right clicked on each separate windows live program....Essentials, Sign-in Assistant, Live Sync and Windows live Upload Tool, clicked 'repair' and/or 'change'. I had previously only tried repairing Windows Live Essentials.

I then ran my Norton Utilities scan, reg cleaner etc. rebooted and Messenger is working and hopefully will continue to do so.

Not sure which was the fix but I tend to think it's the repairs in the control panel.
Hope this helps someone.
 

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Windows 7
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