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[Newbie]

whenever i tried to run the msn 6.1 program it crashes my desktop -> msn, icq IE, torrent, explorer all go not responding blah blah

wtf is up with that
help please


and and
anyone running the latest catalyst drivers
anyone having any problems with those
because thats all i've installed in the last week

 

[Ragerunner]

More specific with the crash? Any error messages? What happens?

 

[abdooooo!!!]

msn? catalyst driver? umm... i can't see any conflict in them two.

 

[Newbie]

its basically an explorer crash
like all the icons on the bottom right disappear

???

 

[sunny]

Which windows? Without any further details or error messages its very hard to tell. A good standard procedure:

- Virus scan
- Spyware scan
- Scandisk

 

[abdooooo!!!]

Originally posted by Newbie
its basically an explorer crash
like all the icons on the bottom right disappear

???

ya i get that sometimes... just reinstall windows... takes a hour thats it.

 

[Winston]

ahhh i remember this problem... but its so hot right now to even wanting to dig up a solution... bleh maybe tongiht when it cools down

 

[Toodulu]

well it's cooled down!
i think messenger 6.1 is causing some problems on my thingy too. i got this shady msg to upgrade to the new messenger that no one else got. but i did download from the official website. but yeh, been having problems since!

 

[*~Dazed~*]

i ALWAYS have problems with msn... dont understand why
decides to crash at the most random times with the cause being completely unknown to me and then after it disconnects itself it doesnt allow me back on... bloody little blue people

 

[Toodulu]

well it's not just msn.. which i can deal with. like the whole screen goes weird and then the computer connected on the network goes weird
and oh god as i'm typing this the screen just went weird and the msn messenger just signed me out saying i'm signed in somewhere. and then the old messenger version signed me in. and now another messenger alert popped up. gah. *explodes*

 

[*~Dazed~*]

all i can do is give out a big

hardihahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[Ragerunner]

Toods, I had that problem with the MSN playing up.

Find the old version of MSN and just delete the files there

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by Ragerunner
Toods, I had that problem with the MSN playing up.

Find the old version of MSN and just delete the files there

hey is there an easy way of uninstalling the old msn that comes wif windows xp- i can't find it listed in the "add/remove program" window.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by freaking_out
hey is there an easy way of uninstalling the old msn that comes wif windows xp- i can't find it listed in the "add/remove program" window.

Do you mean "Windows Messenger", if so, it's possible you just have to edit your SYSOC.ini file and change the propeties so that Windows Messenger will be listed under the Add/Remove Windows components.

 

[Toodulu]

oh, i have removed the new msn numerous times already. under control panel yes yes. and then i installed the new msn again. then i tried to d/l the chinese version which the comp wasn't happy with. i'm currently on the UK version, which has been fine so far, but i'm not counting on it.

hang on rage.. so i should just delete my old msn4 version? i'm just scared if i do that then i won't have msn at all. and then i'll die and have no friends. ahah yes i'm an uber n3rd with no 1337 friends.

 

[santaslayer]

is there a particular patch u can d/l on MS?

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by Winston
Do you mean "Windows Messenger", if so, it's possible you just have to edit your SYSOC.ini file and change the propeties so that Windows Messenger will be listed under the Add/Remove Windows components.

yeah, i meant the msn messenge (v 3 i think) which u get wif windows xp- so can u tell me how to edit the ini file in order to uninstall it?

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by freaking_out
yeah, i meant the msn messenge (v 3 i think) which u get wif windows xp- so can u tell me how to edit the ini file in order to uninstall it?

It's called Windows Messenger! and it was version 4.0, i woudn't advise getting rid of it, as MSN Messenger itself depends on Windows Messenger to use some of the features, e.g. Remote Assitance.

 

[Toodulu]

gah. okay i'm not whether i've fixed it. but my problem was with some win32 generic host problem things. you need to download a patch with microsoft (try to use the microsoft update often), and also make sure you have activated the firewall dealie (under connection properties). there were some patches specifically for this bug that you can download elsewhere but i haven't done that.
i'm not sure how much else i can do or cope with this. if i get anymore of these win32 problems i will throw this computer out the window. actually no i shouldn't, it's new and nice and shiny.

http://protect.microsoft.com/security/protect/WSA/en/default.asp

 

[Toodulu]

oh and http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
not a full anti-virus program, just scans your computer for a few known viruses and trojans and stuff like that.
there's also this one
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html
but i found it a bit confusing, wasn't quite sure what to download