Latest Messenger broken ??

Hi

I am competent programmer
Have a situation where the teenage daughter of a friend is desperate.
Seems that her whole life revolves around Messenger.

They have Windows XP Home edition (I think all SP'ed up), she downloaded the
latest Messenger, installed it and it seems it is broken. She then attempted
to reinstall the last version of Messenger and that does not work either. I
have yet to go round and look at the PC, so I cannot tell you about
versions, nor whether it was installed correctly (or uninstalled correctly
or not).

<later>

Having talked by phone and this 2nd hand info, I think it is version 7.5 and
it sounds to me that the XP Firewall is blocking Messenger. That is
interesting. I would have thought the Messenger installer would know about
this and got things right. Sounds to me like configuring the Firewall for
the right port for Messenger is what I should be doing.

Does this ring any bells?

Stephen




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