Windows live messenger problem

Guess theres no help for the Zingle lol lol

Ok fixed this myself

naviagted to this key (searched product of ellimination)
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2025429265-796845957-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger]
and deleted the whole key.Job done

[Pia]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Bumping this thread

I have a live messenger problem. I cant seem to add people to my list anymore.Well I can but they never actually appear. They have added me to theres and still no good.If I go to offline contacts there name is there I can om them and above the message window it says user is not added to your list.But there in my list and if I click add them now nothing happens. Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling ive tried messenger 7 and the name come up and I got the allow window but when I uninstall that and reinstall WLM there gone again.Any ideas gratefully accepted

Zingy i have this problem aswell, but i managed to get one of them onto my list by installing a different version of messenger and adding them, and then re-installing back... Might not work but i got mine back that way

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Ooooh clever Zingy sorry didn't see that. I'll try that for the other one that's doing it

It just resets everything Pia not contacts but all settings I think a glitch gets in and causes poo lol

[keithwalton]

I had that problem as well recently but only on one out of 3 machines i use msn on! I added someone on one machine fine, then go home use my home machine and the person isnt there. I remote desktop into the work one and they're online. so i get them to talk to me once i've signed in back home.

They can talk to me as normal but it says the person is not on your list click to add them, i do and nothing happens.

So i reinstall msn on that machine, and now it just doesn't sign in at all just sits there doing nothing! oops. It wont sign into any of my accounts
I booted into vista on that machine and was able to sign in fine so its not the connection.

no its registry as the key removal has fixed it
My problem was the same well it appears to be fixed not added one but the missing contacts are now there and do not say not added to list when I open a message box

[AntiSilence]

I've not had either of those problems, but I have had a problem with file transfers. When I send a file and it shows up in the chat text part of the conversation window, and the other person gets to Accept or Cancel it, they often don't see it. I'm there saying "accept it then" and they're replying with "accept what?!" grrr. I have to exit Messenger and restart it.

[abailey152]

AntiSilence, do you have ZoneAlarm with IM Security? If so, some versions cause an issue with file transfer, along with video conversations, and the avatars.

I have ZoneAlarm Security Suite 6.5 and this has the problem. There are workarounds. Zonelabs say downgrading to 6.1 will fix it (great, eh?) but there's also a workaround available via a link on their user forums, which involves hacking IM Security.

I've not bothered with either fix as I only tend to use Messenger for text chat, so I can't comment on what issues there may be.

[AntiSilence]

Originally Posted by abailey152

AntiSilence, do you have ZoneAlarm with IM Security? If so, some versions cause an issue with file transfer, along with video conversations, and the avatars.

I have ZoneAlarm Security Suite 6.5 and this has the problem. There are workarounds. Zonelabs say downgrading to 6.1 will fix it (great, eh?) but there's also a workaround available via a link on their user forums, which involves hacking IM Security.

I've not bothered with either fix as I only tend to use Messenger for text chat, so I can't comment on what issues there may be.

Nope, not using ZoneAlarm. I've got a hardware firewall in my router and I use the XP SP2 firewall. Both are configured for MSN file transfers and video chats etc. The problem seems to not occur so much since moving from MSN Messenger to Live Messenger.