Re: Messenger won't open

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From: Holly (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/01/04


Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:39:09 -0800

Jonathan,

Thanks for helping me. I just downloaded those files and
rebooted and I'm still having the same problems. Is
there anything else I can try?

Thanks!
Holly
  
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings Holly,
>
>To fix this, download and run these .reg files:
>http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/enablewindowsm
essenger_user.reg
>http://messenger.jonathankay.com/downloads/enablemessenge
r.reg
>After running these, reboot and then try opening Windows
Messenger again. This should also
>solve your Outlook Express/Internet Explorer issues as
well.
>____________________________________________
>Jonathan Kay
>Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
>
>"Holly" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:832401c3e8fe$62ad5610$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Every time I try to open Windows Messenger I get an
>> hourglass for a few seconds and then nothing happens.
I
>> can open MSN Messenger just fine. Also, when this
>> started happening my hotmail also started freezing up.
>> Whenever I open it it freezes for about 30 seconds to 1
>> minute and then it unfreezes and lets me scroll and
open
>> messages and stuff. I found MS Knowledge Base Article
>> 325717 which talks about these symptoms but it says it
>> happens when a non-administrator tries to open
Messenger,
>> and I'm an administrator. The article also says that
you
>> will get the following error event:
>> Event Type: Error
>> Event Source: DCOM
>> Event Category: None
>> Event ID: 10010
>> Date: 4/30/2002
>> Time: 11:30:57 PM
>> User: DOMAIN\Username
>> Computer: Computername
>> Description:
>> The server {FB7199AB-79BF-11D2-8D94-0000F875C541} did
not
>> register with DCOM within the required timeout.
>>
>> I get that error event but the server listed is
{1BE1F766-
>> 5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}. I don't know what to do.
>> Also, since this has been happening, the other XP user
>> account on my computer has been totally freezing up.
>> Outlook Express is really slow to open and Internet
>> Explorer sometimes takes forever for the homepage to
>> load. I'm assuming that all these problems are related
>> b/c they all started about the same time. Sorry about
>> the long message. Hopefully somebody's reading this
and
>> can help. Thanks!
>
>
>.
>



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