Windows Messenger Auto-Logon Failures

From: JWPlatt (JWPlatt_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:37:03 -0800

Jonathan Kay, little help if you please?

It seems most people want Windows Messenger gone out of their lives forever.
 I just want auto logon to work after SP2. I don't want MSN Messenger.

Why does XP SP2 state that it ships with the "latest" Messenger 4.7 when 5.0
has been out for so long? I found my 5.0 installs were overwritten by 4.7.
I downloaded 5.1 and installed it. Still no auto-logon.

Do you have any ideas on the auto-logon failue issue? I have yet to see any
mention anywhere of the direct cause for sudden auto-logon failures that
refuse to go away. Any other alternatives would be appreciated.

I had 9 user workstations automatically logging into Windows Messenger.
Then I applied XP SP2 on all of them and now Windows Messenger fails auto
logon on 4 of them. It doesn't even appear to try. Manual logons work fine
amd Windows Messenger works after that.

I have tried the "Sign In As..." automatic logon checkbox. It doesn't
stick. I have tried setting the auto logon checkbox in Outlook Express even
though we use Outlook. I'll try any checkbox which might set some televant
registry entry somewhere.

I have tried removing Windows Messenger with the well-known:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
and reinstallation did not fix it. In fact, running the Windows Messenger
installer after this little suggestion brings up the option of Repair/Remove
with Remove grayed out. Big help that is!

Uninstalling Windows Messenger 5.1 with "msiexec /x
{C3A6819F-62D3-4750-AF1C-28206DDF2C2E}" was successfull, but reinstallation
was ineffective for auto-logon. How about the uninstall product codes for
4.7 and 5.0? What should I look for concerning what might be a permissions
problem affecting auto-logon?

Auto-logon is successful under the local Administrator account. But not the
regular domain user account, which is where I need it. I tried giving the
user Administrator permissions to see if that would have any effect because,
as I said earlier, auto-logon works when I log into the local Administrator
account. But it did not help.

I tried looking in the HKCU registries for the user that works and the user
that doesn't to find something obvious but there are so many bit-level
settings, it's impossible for me to know what might be wrong.

I have tried "removing" Messenger from the control panel's Add/Remove
Windows Components, but we all know that's just cosmetic.

I'm all out of the common solutions. Jonathan, do you, or does anyone have
an informed solution? 

-- 
JWP

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