Live Messenger Not Responding

I have Windows Live Messenger (the latest one, but not the beta) and I had MSN plus addition installed. It was working fine for about 4 months and then the day before yesterday everytime I tried to log in, right after it brought up my contacts screen it would stop responding. I had to 'end task' to get it to shut down. I've tried deinstalling and reinstalling it at least three times, without the MSN plus addition, but it still won't work. The curious thing is that this only pertains to the login accounts that I make. I've made three different ones and none of them work, but my roommate can log in on my computer fine. However, when *I* try to log in on *her* computer I get the same error and I have to end task. Even when I create new accounts I can not get it to work. I don't understand! Does anyone have any suggestions?

[837 byte] By [Danalynn] at [2007-12-27]

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# 1

There is soulution!

http://msn-errors.blogspot.com/2006/12/live-messenger-is-not-responding.html

BiGi at 2007-9-4 >

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# 2

I too have been having the same problem and tried your solution but it

didn't work. It actually locked up when the troubleshooting cycle

began. Any other solutions out there?

shigee at 2007-9-4 >

# 3

How do I disable options? What menu is that from?

Danalynn827 at 2007-9-4 >

# 4

ok i found out how to disable the options but the troubleshoot screen is not popping up. can i manually start it?

Danalynn827 at 2007-9-4 >

# 5

The reason most likely that messenger stopped responding is because you probably tried livecall. If this is the case stopping the livecall process will allow messenger to complete the logging process...The most likely reason that livecall does not work is because there is a problem with your sound system. Make sure that you have the latest drivers for your sound card, make sure that your audio and voice are set to use only your sound card(make it your preferred device), reboot, try to setup audio and video on messenger before you log in. If you cannot and messenger stops responding, you must solve that sound card issue before messenger will work with your current login info or .net passport.

Hope that this helped

BorisPatrick at 2007-9-4 >

# 6

I've struggled with this for several days now.

Besides all the installing and uninstalling and many more pointers the newly installed live messenger was even worse and wouldn't even open.

The repair did not work either.

The msn.msgr.exe file showed up in the task manager and if fact it showed up 5 times if you tried opening it 5 times.

I did a restore point to two months ago and the live messenger did open but went to not responding when trying to access it.

I went to search for "msn.msgr.exe repair" instead of "live messenger not responding" and found the following site:

http://www.tuneupadvisor.com/fix-exe.aspx

This has a RegCure scan program which according to the documentation on this page would fix msn.msgr.exe

I ran this and it deleted a lot of *** from the registry.

Seemed to work better than Reg Seeker.

It certainly did the job. I restarted the system and the Msn Live messenger ran like a charm.

Why I'm not sure. My computer downstairs is doing the same thing while my son's computer with Vista is fine.

So the issue of router problems is not the case.

northbridgesouth at 2007-9-4 >

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