Messenger 7.0

[netibiza]

My daughter keeps installing Messanger 7.0 as a chat room - and it keeps messing up the system - also the Sims expansion pack does the same - is there any safe way of using these?

[QmunkE]

What do you mean by "messing up the system"? Does the whole thing stop working completely? If you could describe the nature of the problem, it would assist in finding a solution. The new version of Messenger hasn't caused me any trouble (so far).

[netibiza]

well after a while it freezes everything and even when I reboot it's msn 7.0 which pops up and freezes again before I start - I have finally managed to uninstall it but she really wants it up and running - even had a problem uninstalling it, please bear in mind that I am a wrinkly and not much use at technology - so easy advise please and thank you.

[Little Lady]

Hmmm it's funny you say that i used to have messenger on my PC at home and our PC went awol we had to reinstall everything though we did leave it for 3 months as it was such a palaver! I don't bother with it now as im never in to go on it now. Except at work and i can't get it here probably a good job i could knacker the country up for electric and gas knowing my luck

[QmunkE]

Hmm, seems odd. Other than the usual suspects (virus scan, adware/spyware scan) I can't really advise further on this. If your daughter wants to use Messenger simply to chat, she could just use the WebMessenger:

http://webmessenger.msn.com/

[CLUMP]

does it leave an error message if it does the goto microsoft web site and type in error