MSN Messenger can't open or reinstall

[lankan_man]

Hey there,

I got msn messenger 7.5 and I am not able to open it, when I do the windows installer shows up for about 2mins after this message comes up:




Then When I try to reinstall it the Windows installer once again appears then this message shows up:


I must add, that my Windows Messenger works perfectly.

So basically I guess this happened after I used system restore.

Anyways, high hopes waiting for a solution.

Thanks in advance

[gamedango]

First try uninstalling it through add/remove programs. Then go to c:\documents and settings\user\application data\microsoft\msn messenger\ and delete that folder. That will remove saved messages, backgrounds, emoticons..etc. Leave if you wish to keep these.

Go to start-run and type: RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

They go to start, run, type regedit. Navigate to this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft > MSN Messenger. Delete that key.

Restart your PC, do a windows update (may be needing the update windows installer) then restart PC again and reinstall latest version of MSN messenger.

Hope that helps.

[lankan_man]

As I said before, I can not uninstall msn messenger, they prompt a message then it is not possible for me to do any action.

So Shall I skip the uninstalling part, and proceed with the rest?

[Reverend]

reinstall it over the top of your current one.

[lankan_man]

I did do that, but it still doesn't work...

[Conan]

It's time to reformat the hard drive then.

[lankan_man]

lol, nope, I got too much valuable thinggies....Rik's treasure chest

nah, it's okay, it's fixed, so the problem was, that some file were missing, and I used the msn messenger directory of a friend and I pasted the data

thats all, simple as 123 ¶¼ª-¾÷67º