windowa live messenger in Vista home premium

windows live messenger loads, shows my contacts and then immediately stops
working. Windows then checks for a solution and then tells me to close the
program (no solution) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I use
messenger daily

Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet has this on her website..
The Microsoft-suggested workaround:

1. Uninstall Flash Player (Click Start->Control Panel->Uninstall a Program,
then select Flash Player)

2. Close Windows Live Messenger and any other programs that use Flash

3. Open Adobe public Flash Player beta site
(http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)

4. Click "Download Installer for Windows Active X" to install

It's the Adobe Flash player causing the crashes, concurred Robert McLaws of
Windows-Now.com fame. "If you're on Vista, you have to install the Adobe
Flash beta. (Then), it (WLM 8.1) will still crash on exit every once in a
while, but nowhere near as bad as it used to."

The other option is to uninstall Live Messenger 8.1, and revert back to
version 8.0, which can be downloaded from here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

"eamled" <eamled@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:13BC57BA-A394-4FDE-81FC-754473101764@microsoft.com...
> windows live messenger loads, shows my contacts and then immediately stops
> working. Windows then checks for a solution and then tells me to close
> the
> program (no solution) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I
> use
> messenger daily

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

Mike,

Just an addendum,
Having been in the beta-you are correct-you need Adobe flashplayer 9 for WLM
8.1 to function correctly-it is now their official version-on their main
site.

:-)

Jeff

"Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:OJ7%23GENXHHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet has this on her website..
> The Microsoft-suggested workaround:
>
> 1. Uninstall Flash Player (Click Start->Control Panel->Uninstall a
> Program, then select Flash Player)
>
> 2. Close Windows Live Messenger and any other programs that use Flash
>
> 3. Open Adobe public Flash Player beta site
> (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)
>
> 4. Click "Download Installer for Windows Active X" to install
>
> It's the Adobe Flash player causing the crashes, concurred Robert McLaws
> of Windows-Now.com fame. "If you're on Vista, you have to install the
> Adobe Flash beta. (Then), it (WLM 8.1) will still crash on exit every once
> in a while, but nowhere near as bad as it used to."
>
> The other option is to uninstall Live Messenger 8.1, and revert back to
> version 8.0, which can be downloaded from here.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
> "eamled" <eamled@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:13BC57BA-A394-4FDE-81FC-754473101764@microsoft.com...
>> windows live messenger loads, shows my contacts and then immediately
>> stops
>> working. Windows then checks for a solution and then tells me to close
>> the
>> program (no solution) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I
>> use
>> messenger daily
>
> --
>
>
> Mike Hall
> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>
>
>

"Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote:

> Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet has this on her website..
> The Microsoft-suggested workaround:
>
> 1. Uninstall Flash Player (Click Start->Control Panel->Uninstall a Program,
> then select Flash Player)
>
> 2. Close Windows Live Messenger and any other programs that use Flash
>
> 3. Open Adobe public Flash Player beta site
> (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)
>
> 4. Click "Download Installer for Windows Active X" to install
>
> It's the Adobe Flash player causing the crashes, concurred Robert McLaws of
> Windows-Now.com fame. "If you're on Vista, you have to install the Adobe
> Flash beta. (Then), it (WLM 8.1) will still crash on exit every once in a
> while, but nowhere near as bad as it used to."
>
> The other option is to uninstall Live Messenger 8.1, and revert back to
> version 8.0, which can be downloaded from here.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
> "eamled" <eamled@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:13BC57BA-A394-4FDE-81FC-754473101764@microsoft.com...
> > windows live messenger loads, shows my contacts and then immediately stops
> > working. Windows then checks for a solution and then tells me to close
> > the
> > program (no solution) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I
> > use
> > messenger daily
>
> --
>
>
> Mike Hall
> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>
>
>
>

"Jeff" wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Just an addendum,
> Having been in the beta-you are correct-you need Adobe flashplayer 9 for WLM
> 8.1 to function correctly-it is now their official version-on their main
> site.
>
> :-)
>
> Jeff
>
> "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:OJ7%23GENXHHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet has this on her website..
> > The Microsoft-suggested workaround:
> >
> > 1. Uninstall Flash Player (Click Start->Control Panel->Uninstall a
> > Program, then select Flash Player)
> >
> > 2. Close Windows Live Messenger and any other programs that use Flash
> >
> > 3. Open Adobe public Flash Player beta site
> > (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)
> >
> > 4. Click "Download Installer for Windows Active X" to install
> >
> > It's the Adobe Flash player causing the crashes, concurred Robert McLaws
> > of Windows-Now.com fame. "If you're on Vista, you have to install the
> > Adobe Flash beta. (Then), it (WLM 8.1) will still crash on exit every once
> > in a while, but nowhere near as bad as it used to."
> >
> > The other option is to uninstall Live Messenger 8.1, and revert back to
> > version 8.0, which can be downloaded from here.
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
> >
> > "eamled" <eamled@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:13BC57BA-A394-4FDE-81FC-754473101764@microsoft.com...
> >> windows live messenger loads, shows my contacts and then immediately
> >> stops
> >> working. Windows then checks for a solution and then tells me to close
> >> the
> >> program (no solution) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I
> >> use
> >> messenger daily
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Mike Hall
> > MS MVP Windows Shell/User
> > http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
> >
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for your help. Couldn't get on to the beta flash player site but uninstalled 8'1 and installed 8.0 and it now works. Only problem now is if I need flash player and can't get onto the beta site

eamled,
That's cuz flashplayer 9 is no longer beta-it's the main one on their
main site

Jeff

"eamled" <eamled@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:64CC8F64-7C12-43DD-9CDB-A46C9708099F@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "Jeff" wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Just an addendum,
>> Having been in the beta-you are correct-you need Adobe flashplayer 9 for
>> WLM
>> 8.1 to function correctly-it is now their official version-on their main
>> site.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in
>> message
>> news:OJ7%23GENXHHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> > Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet has this on her website..
>> > The Microsoft-suggested workaround:
>> >
>> > 1. Uninstall Flash Player (Click Start->Control Panel->Uninstall a
>> > Program, then select Flash Player)
>> >
>> > 2. Close Windows Live Messenger and any other programs that use Flash
>> >
>> > 3. Open Adobe public Flash Player beta site
>> > (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)
>> >
>> > 4. Click "Download Installer for Windows Active X" to install
>> >
>> > It's the Adobe Flash player causing the crashes, concurred Robert
>> > McLaws
>> > of Windows-Now.com fame. "If you're on Vista, you have to install the
>> > Adobe Flash beta. (Then), it (WLM 8.1) will still crash on exit every
>> > once
>> > in a while, but nowhere near as bad as it used to."
>> >
>> > The other option is to uninstall Live Messenger 8.1, and revert back to
>> > version 8.0, which can be downloaded from here.
>> >
>> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>> >
>> > "eamled" <eamled@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:13BC57BA-A394-4FDE-81FC-754473101764@microsoft.com...
>> >> windows live messenger loads, shows my contacts and then immediately
>> >> stops
>> >> working. Windows then checks for a solution and then tells me to
>> >> close
>> >> the
>> >> program (no solution) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as
>> >> I
>> >> use
>> >> messenger daily
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> >
>> > Mike Hall
>> > MS MVP Windows Shell/User
>> > http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for your help. Couldn't get on to the beta flash player site but
>> uninstalled 8'1 and installed 8.0 and it now works. Only problem now is
>> if I need flash player and can't get onto the beta site