windowa live messenger in Vista home premium

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windows live messenger loads, shows my contacts and then immediately stops
working. Windows then checks for a solution and then tells me to close the
program (no solution) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I use
messenger daily
 
Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet has this on her website..
The Microsoft-suggested workaround:

1. Uninstall Flash Player (Click Start->Control Panel->Uninstall a Program,
then select Flash Player)

2. Close Windows Live Messenger and any other programs that use Flash

3. Open Adobe public Flash Player beta site
(http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)

4. Click "Download Installer for Windows Active X" to install

It's the Adobe Flash player causing the crashes, concurred Robert McLaws of
Windows-Now.com fame. "If you're on Vista, you have to install the Adobe
Flash beta. (Then), it (WLM 8.1) will still crash on exit every once in a
while, but nowhere near as bad as it used to."

The other option is to uninstall Live Messenger 8.1, and revert back to
version 8.0, which can be downloaded from here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8F-8574-4562-AF6D-48DD23026B9D&displaylang=en

eamled said:
windows live messenger loads, shows my contacts and then immediately stops
working. Windows then checks for a solution and then tells me to close
the
program (no solution) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I
use
messenger daily
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
Mike,

Just an addendum,
Having been in the beta-you are correct-you need Adobe flashplayer 9 for WLM
8.1 to function correctly-it is now their official version-on their main
site.

:-)

Jeff
 
Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User said:
Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet has this on her website..
The Microsoft-suggested workaround:

1. Uninstall Flash Player (Click Start->Control Panel->Uninstall a Program,
then select Flash Player)

2. Close Windows Live Messenger and any other programs that use Flash

3. Open Adobe public Flash Player beta site
(http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)

4. Click "Download Installer for Windows Active X" to install

It's the Adobe Flash player causing the crashes, concurred Robert McLaws of
Windows-Now.com fame. "If you're on Vista, you have to install the Adobe
Flash beta. (Then), it (WLM 8.1) will still crash on exit every once in a
while, but nowhere near as bad as it used to."

The other option is to uninstall Live Messenger 8.1, and revert back to
version 8.0, which can be downloaded from here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8F-8574-4562-AF6D-48DD23026B9D&displaylang=en



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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
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Jeff said:
Mike,

Just an addendum,
Having been in the beta-you are correct-you need Adobe flashplayer 9 for WLM
8.1 to function correctly-it is now their official version-on their main
site.

:-)

Jeff



Thanks for your help. Couldn't get on to the beta flash player site but uninstalled 8'1 and installed 8.0 and it now works. Only problem now is if I need flash player and can't get onto the beta site
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eamled,
That's cuz flashplayer 9 is no longer beta-it's the main one on their
main site

Jeff
 
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