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OMG!!! what is it with MSN Messenger…?

By Paul at 4:38 pm on Sunday, November 5, 2006

First of all you get Messenger 4.7 installed when you do a fresh install of WINXP… why have they not removed it when SP1 and SP2 came out….  Now when you get a Full instal OEM WinXP SP2 Pro CD it still has that silly 4.7 version of Messenger. Now they upgraded MANY times and when will it ever work properly.?? Do you still have that pesky versiion around….  well get rid of it fully with this command……  Just copy and paste this whole line between the quotes into a RUN Command line and poof!!! All gone…  “rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %systemRoot%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove” it’s one of the first things I do when I have to reinstall the OS or when I build a new PC.

How many times has MSN Messenger been updated now.?? and they still seem to have one problem after another…. I like the new Messenger Live!! but geez… Why change the way you added contacts to your list…? Was great to get that popup window telling you that you have been added… now you get nothing… at least I haven’t recieved that little popup recently… yet we I have a tick in the Privacy Tab to “Alert me when other prople add me to their contacts list” must be broken now.

So I went back to version 7.5 and as soon as I logged in with the old version I get 3-4 popup windowes telling me so-n-so has added me…  today I have been getting the silly message “The following message could not be delivered to all recipients:” and that is the middle of a chat session… I close the chat window fire up another and it still happens.. it’s annoying as hell.. Maybe they should rename it “Windows Dead Messenger” instead!! Nothing Live! about it….  Thank god I still have Yahoo and ICQ or I may never be able to comminucate with some of my friends…..

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Comment by Frank

November 5, 2006 @ 10:24 PM

Damn you’ve had alot of crappy luck lately. Personally I use Live, haven’t had any issues with it. However I’m not really on it alot to find them.

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Comment by Paul

November 5, 2006 @ 10:42 PM

lol. indeed. and yet Life goes on…
thanx for reading Frank. 🙂

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Comment by Frank

November 5, 2006 @ 11:26 PM

BTW, are you guys still going for Pho at the same place in Richmond by John’s old shop?(the shop that had the dentist office upstairs, and the hair salon beside it) or did you find a better place. Pho from that place made your burps smell nasty. The place that I had the quall egg wasn’t too bad(don’t remember where that was)

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Comment by Paul

November 6, 2006 @ 7:28 AM

I think any Pho gives you smelly burps.. and your breath… lets not go there…..
you must remember Daves visit to the toilet following the Pho too….
and of course we still goto Pho Lan..
the other place you might be thing about Pho Hoa.???
Cheers Frank..

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Comment by Frank

November 6, 2006 @ 7:07 PM

How can anyone forget Dave’s visit to the toilet, that man could kill small animals with the stench he produced. Pho Hoa might be the place, I remember that it was pretty big inside(compared to Pho Lan).

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Comment by Paul

November 6, 2006 @ 9:30 PM

lol…..

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Comment by Sharon

November 16, 2006 @ 10:51 AM

I’ve pretty much given up on MSN Messenger. I still have all the versions that I have installed on the computer and the new one just keeps on crashing on me….

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Comment by abi

November 30, 2006 @ 4:09 PM

the thing thats annoying me about msn is i dont want windows live plus ne more i cnt copy and paste anything into my personal message and the graphics get boring after a bit and it goes wierd now and agen i tried to get hte old normal msn 7.5 with the plus features and i go on google and all that comes upo is WINDOWS LIVE PLUS!!! i dnt want it!

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Comment by Paul

December 2, 2006 @ 9:18 AM

Well Abi I may be able to help you out with that….
Send me an email and I will see if I have all my old program files and send you a copy.

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Comment by Paul

December 2, 2006 @ 9:44 AM

Even better…

here are some links to what you are looking for….

MSN Messenger 7.5

Messenger Plus! 3.63.148

Hope this helps you out 🙂

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