HI IM TRYING TO INSTALL WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER ON MY FIANCES LAP TOP BUT ALL I GET IS GOING THROUGH HOTMAIL TO CHAT.I DONT LIKE THIS...HOW DO I FIX OR CHANGE THIS ?PLZ HELP

Apparentl;y one of he last updates has eliminated the icons in live messenger, that used to appear

at the top of the message pane, indicating that the other computer was capable of video chat, or voice chat.

What happendd to those icons?

Charles B.

Apparentl;y one of he last updates has eliminated the icons in live messenger, that used to appear

at the top of the message pane, indicating that the other computer was capable of video chat, or voice chat.

What happendd to those icons?

Charles B.

before 2 mnths i updated the messenger and it stop working it told me "the application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect .please see the application event log for more details "

so i unistalled the windows live messenger2011 and i dowloded and installed the an old live messenger and it worked again.

last 2 weeks the messenger forced me to update it and no other choice,,,and after i updated it,,,,the messenger stoped working again .

could you help about how i can make windows live messenger 2011 work again ?

re-install my messenger juast signe in
Since downloading the latest version of messenger the sound/pop up screen facility no longer works to tell me when someone has signed in. I have removed it/reset it back up both by the options facility and by right clicking on the contact but despite showing it as being set up I no longer get the sound or the pop up screen. The sound itself is working on the pc as when I press the option to play the sound everything is ok but it just doesn't work when someone signs in. Can anyone offer any suggestion as this is infuriating when working on another screen & I am waiting for someone to sign in?
Want to talk,instead of type in messenger,is that possible,when using IE
?
already have told the details - lots of unwanted thing
s - just want my conversation with a friend or two
Hello everyone,

Whenever I try to open any of my Windows Live Essentials programs (mail, messenger etc.), I can see the process running in the task manager, but no window pops up on the screen. I decided to just uninstall WLE from the control panel, but it won't let me. When I click "uninstall/change", I get to the dialog box where it says  "remove one or more windows live programs" and "repair all windows live programs", but when I click "remove..." it won't give me the options to choose the programs to uninstall, and it just flashes a dialog box which says "Done! The programs you selected have been uninstalled", but the programs are still on my system. Is there a way around this? I just want to remove Windows Live Essentials 2011.

Thank you