Re: Can't sign-in MSN Messenger 5 without upgrading..

MSN Messenger 5 doesn't have a whole lot of features, I haven't used it in
quite some time, so I can't remember exactly what it is missing, but if you
really want to use something with less features, why not use Windows
Messenger instead?

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William Arias III
Microsoft MVP - MSN Messenger


"Kaspers" <Kaspers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B90410D5-6366-4B13-9FFE-8409153B422E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Also not with a registry edit ?
>
> Yesterday I was getting the same pop-up to upgrade,
> and I did a systemrecovery to the day before yesterday..
>
> So after that systemrecovery I could use msnmsgr 5 again,
> so it's maybe somthing in the windows registry..
>
> Anyone other ideas?
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm afraid not, the only way to use MSN Messenger 5 is to use Windows 95.
>>
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>> "Kaspers" <Kaspers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:D0F12C2C-16FE-4D73-AD06-AF3343634015@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I want to use MSN Messenger 5,
>> > Yesterday I could sign in, but today there is a message that I have to
>> > upgrade.
>> >
>> > I don't want to use msn messenger 6 or higher.
>> >
>> > The reason I want to use msn messenger 5, is because it hasn't much
>> > buttons
>> > in the user interface that msn 6 or higher has..
>> >
>> > I know I have to upgarde for security reasons,
>> > but isn't there any register tweak that I still can use msn messenger 5
>> > ?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance (Y)
>>
>>
>>


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