The most random MSN problem....
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I download the Windows Update, which my PC begs me to do, purely to get rid of the annoying messages without fiddling around. I am on XP Pro SP2. Funnily enough, all the hotfixes are not itemised in Add/Remove Programs.
Furthermore, I had AVG Anti-Virus but I decided to try out some real firewall/AV packages and I tried Panda which was a bit unstable (buffer overflow errors), and I get Kaspersky which I am happy with.
Problem is, after I applied the damn Windows Update, my MSN Messenger (latest version) stopped working. When I sign in, I get the usual "cannot sign in. Pleasee try again" error message. At first, I thought it was due to MSN itself being down but this message lasted longer than for it to be down to MSN. When I use the laptop, I get the same error but on the laptop I can sometimes get into MSN. On the PC, however, I now also get a "xxxx.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check your installation diskette" message and strangely, when I type my email address in MSN Messenger 8 there is a huge lag between the time I type a letter in this form element and until it appears. In the password box there is no such lag at all. I ran scannow but when it completed the "verifying..." stage, it closed.
What's the problem?
Furthermore, I had AVG Anti-Virus but I decided to try out some real firewall/AV packages and I tried Panda which was a bit unstable (buffer overflow errors), and I get Kaspersky which I am happy with.
Problem is, after I applied the damn Windows Update, my MSN Messenger (latest version) stopped working. When I sign in, I get the usual "cannot sign in. Pleasee try again" error message. At first, I thought it was due to MSN itself being down but this message lasted longer than for it to be down to MSN. When I use the laptop, I get the same error but on the laptop I can sometimes get into MSN. On the PC, however, I now also get a "xxxx.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check your installation diskette" message and strangely, when I type my email address in MSN Messenger 8 there is a huge lag between the time I type a letter in this form element and until it appears. In the password box there is no such lag at all. I ran scannow but when it completed the "verifying..." stage, it closed.
What's the problem?
IM seems to have got very unreliable recently.
Lots of symptoms:
- Can't sign in
- People are shown as offline when they are online and messaging happily to a common third party
- Send a message to somebody who is online, they don't recieve the message
However, no installation problems like you've got.
It's got so bad we've stopped using it for work and have reverted to Skype.
Lots of symptoms:
- Can't sign in
- People are shown as offline when they are online and messaging happily to a common third party
- Send a message to somebody who is online, they don't recieve the message
However, no installation problems like you've got.
It's got so bad we've stopped using it for work and have reverted to Skype.
z064life said:
I download the Windows Update, which my PC begs me to do, purely to get rid of the annoying messages without fiddling around. I am on XP Pro SP2. Funnily enough, all the hotfixes are not itemised in Add/Remove Programs.
Furthermore, I had AVG Anti-Virus but I decided to try out some real firewall/AV packages and I tried Panda which was a bit unstable (buffer overflow errors), and I get Kaspersky which I am happy with.
Problem is, after I applied the damn Windows Update, my MSN Messenger (latest version) stopped working. When I sign in, I get the usual "cannot sign in. Pleasee try again" error message. At first, I thought it was due to MSN itself being down but this message lasted longer than for it to be down to MSN. When I use the laptop, I get the same error but on the laptop I can sometimes get into MSN. On the PC, however, I now also get a "xxxx.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check your installation diskette" message and strangely, when I type my email address in MSN Messenger 8 there is a huge lag between the time I type a letter in this form element and until it appears. In the password box there is no such lag at all. I ran scannow but when it completed the "verifying..." stage, it closed.
What's the problem?
Furthermore, I had AVG Anti-Virus but I decided to try out some real firewall/AV packages and I tried Panda which was a bit unstable (buffer overflow errors), and I get Kaspersky which I am happy with.
Problem is, after I applied the damn Windows Update, my MSN Messenger (latest version) stopped working. When I sign in, I get the usual "cannot sign in. Pleasee try again" error message. At first, I thought it was due to MSN itself being down but this message lasted longer than for it to be down to MSN. When I use the laptop, I get the same error but on the laptop I can sometimes get into MSN. On the PC, however, I now also get a "xxxx.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check your installation diskette" message and strangely, when I type my email address in MSN Messenger 8 there is a huge lag between the time I type a letter in this form element and until it appears. In the password box there is no such lag at all. I ran scannow but when it completed the "verifying..." stage, it closed.
What's the problem?
I'm surprised - have you ticked the box to show them?
Nacnud said:
IM seems to have got very unreliable recently.
Lots of symptoms:
- Can't sign in
- People are shown as offline when they are online and messaging happily to a common third party
- Send a message to somebody who is online, they don't recieve the message
However, no installation problems like you've got.
It's got so bad we've stopped using it for work and have reverted to Skype.
Lots of symptoms:
- Can't sign in
- People are shown as offline when they are online and messaging happily to a common third party
- Send a message to somebody who is online, they don't recieve the message
However, no installation problems like you've got.
It's got so bad we've stopped using it for work and have reverted to Skype.
Why not just install an internal IM system if you use it for work?
We use Openfire (Open Source Jabber server) and Spark with the IM gateways to talk to MSN, Yahoo, ICQ etc.
The project has just about gotten to the point where it's good enough to suggest as a replacement for traditional public IM solutions.
Try it... you might like it.
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