Windows Messenger

[brua100]

Does any one know if it works on 7 i tryed downloading it yesterday from official site and it failed 4 times any advice???

 

[Ex_Brit]

Windows Messenger became extinct with Vista.

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows XP 64-bit; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Try Windows Live Messenger.

 

[brua100]

Thanx ex_brit will try it now

 

[brua100]

Humm stll no good
How do i take a screen shot of the window that comes up witht he reason why it cant install it has a long error message and i cant be arsed to write it down to type it back in lol

 

[Mark]

You can use the snipping tool or you can download Faststone capture which is a great program and easy to use, to post your images use the advanced tab on your post and then use the paper clip to manage attachments.

another thing you might want to try is Windows Live Beta package. View attachment wlsetup-web.zip

 

[brua100]

Humm still no good
most of the tabs on this image carry the same error message

 

[Mark]

At the bottom of the error message it suggest that another program could preventing this installer from working, are there any programs that are out of the ordinary that you have installed lately, maybe you could try uninstalling a couple to see if that works.

 

[silks]

What programs do you have open when you try and install it? The error message is saying that something's blocking it. Try closing everything except the installer and see if it works.

I know this installer works, because I used it yesterday and it worked perfectly. I only installed Messenger though.

EDIT: Grim beat me. =]

 

[brua100]

unfortunatly not grimm i have tryed all the recomedations on the bottom and tbh its a clean install and i only have a couple of programs on here atm so no everything is closed at time of installaton i dont get it have done messinger like a thousend times and neva had a problem appart from on se7en its the only problem i have encountered so far

 

[brua100]

I tryed that alrdy silks the first time was just the messinger install and that one is is a link grimm suggested to try

 

[Mark]

Maybe try installing in safe mode with networking or turning UAC off, it shouldn't be the problem though as I have used that installer and the normal live installer and it's worked fine in the past, have you tried a system restart yet?

 

[silks]

Hmm...What about background processes? Try checking them to see if anything there can be interfering with it.

 

[Barman58]

Hello,

one thing you could try is to go into safe mode with networking and run the installer from there. this should bypass anything that is blocking the install

 

[Ex_Brit]

Don't know if this will help, found it online. It's old but could still apply.

- Download & save the latest WLM version.
- Update Windows through Windows Update
- Go to "C:\Program Files\Windows Live" and remove "Messenger" folder (note: replace "C" with your root drive letter)
- Go to "CrogramData" (note: replace "C" with your root drive letter) and delete both Windows Live Installer and WLInstaller if you have any
- Restart PC
- Run the installer

I reiterate, this is for Windows Live Messenger. Windows Messenger installation shouldn't be tried on Vista and above as it isn't compatible.

 

[Gunny1188]

MSN plus and messenger disscovary prevents it to stop wroking well the old ones do, I had this probelm befor and now i have seem to forget sorry there mate

 

[oondric]

Hangs up

hm. im having a problem with windows live messenger. my computer hangs up (freezes) whenever i open msn. [wlsetup-custom] (before the login window comes up)
reinstall it?
doesnt work.

msn 2009 beta works [wlsetup-web.exe](able to open login window) but doesnt log me in.
it asks me if i want tp update to the latest version of windows:

YES: downloads, but at the end, it says unable to use the installation.
NO: Closes the "update" window, but doesnt do anything.


advice? :huh:

 

[Orbital Shark]

The only advice i can offer is to check MSN's (or even Microsoft's) website for information about what you are downloading. It sounds like incompatability with Windows 7. Also it could be due to the build you are using, 7000 thru to 7048 IMO are full of hardware/software bugs, 7077 is the most stable yet.

I'm using Messenger with no problems at all on build 7077.

Hope this helps

 

[DemonSeed]

I to am running Messenger Live Bata in build (7000) with out probs.
I did install live movie maker last night and got errors
but just had to close firefox and do it again and it went through.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Best thing i've found about the new live downloads is the photo gallery, it let's you preview DVD VOB files without needing to run any player

Handy as i'm always creating DVDs for people (home movies & what not)

 

[oondric]

lol.

i use build 7000.
do u have it activated? D:

cuz mine isnt activated *orz


hm. im trying another [wlsetup-web]. wish me luck