Not Running anymore

Help!
I installed 5.1 Windows Messenger.
It gave me the 'logging on' message, but never did.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling 4.7.
But now when I double click on Windows Message, it goes busy then nothing
happens.
I tried reinstalling from the windows XP disk, doesn't work.

Greetings,

When you mean "busy" do you mean the cursor?

If so, download and run both of these .reg files to see if we can get it working:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/dow...enger_user.reg
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/dow...emessenger.reg

You'll need to reboot to see the change.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2005 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

"Mantok" <Mantok@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A54CD1BE-87C3-4A99-85D6-F5881926C6D0@microsoft.com...
> Help!
> I installed 5.1 Windows Messenger.
> It gave me the 'logging on' message, but never did.
> I tried uninstalling and reinstalling 4.7.
> But now when I double click on Windows Message, it goes busy then nothing
> happens.
> I tried reinstalling from the windows XP disk, doesn't work.
>
>

Actually once I turned off my Norton Internet Firewall it started working.
I would like to turn it back on, if I knew how to allow messenger.
Maybe in an update, it added a port?

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> When you mean "busy" do you mean the cursor?
>
> If so, download and run both of these .reg files to see if we can get it working:
> http://messenger.jonathankay.com/dow...enger_user.reg
> http://messenger.jonathankay.com/dow...emessenger.reg
>
> You'll need to reboot to see the change.
> ____________________________________________
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2005 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>
> "Mantok" <Mantok@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A54CD1BE-87C3-4A99-85D6-F5881926C6D0@microsoft.com...
> > Help!
> > I installed 5.1 Windows Messenger.
> > It gave me the 'logging on' message, but never did.
> > I tried uninstalling and reinstalling 4.7.
> > But now when I double click on Windows Message, it goes busy then nothing
> > happens.
> > I tried reinstalling from the windows XP disk, doesn't work.
> >
> >
>
>
>