Hi.

A while ago I installed the Longhorn MSN Skin for my MSN Messenger 6.2.0205. After a while I decided to uninstall it. It doesn't seem to have uninstalled the whole thing as whenever the MSN Messenger windows get grouped together I get the Longhorn MSN icon still (as shown in attachment bellow). Why is this and how can I get rid of it back to a nice clean version of MSN Messenger 6.2.0205 the original??? lol.

I've tryed uninstalling it once and reinstalling MSN Messenger 6.2.0205 but this still happened, so I uninstalled it again and after deleted the MSN Messenger folder in Program Files on my computer and then reinstalled it but I still get this. Can anyone help?

Thanks

[Edit]Oops, forgot to attach the picture[/Edit]

Check MSN Messenger in program files, see if there is anything to do with Longhorn in there. Delete if so.

If no luck then either repair MSN Messenger.

When you re-install it then that should clear it, not sure why it hasn't in your case.

Erm...there's a msnmsgr.exe.bak file that may have it in it's original state, maby i could restore it from there...don't know how to though. If not how do i repair MSN Messenger because I have already tryed reinstalling it twice and that didn't work.

If you've reinstalled a clean messenger and the problem is still there, i see two possible causes: You haven't restarted the computer since the first uninstall of the skin and/or there's a problem with the cache of the icons that the explorer of Windows keeps.

Either one or the other cause, try to restart the computer. It should solve the problem. If it doesn't, uninstall messenger, restart, delete (if it's still there) the folder of messenger from the program files folder, reinstall messenger and reboot again.

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Originally posted by ProblemWv Authority
Erm...there's a msnmsgr.exe.bak file that may have it in it's original state, maby i could restore it from there...don't know how to though. If not how do i repair MSN Messenger because I have already tryed reinstalling it twice and that didn't work.

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I've tried all of the suggestions above and it still shows up with those icons

Any ideas?

Thanks anyway so far

Is the skin name not listed in Add & Remove programs list? If it is then uninstall it from there.

Have you got any dodgy plug-ins that could effect skins?

When you completely uninstall MSN Messenger and all it's files, the skins should be deleted completely. Very strange.

Ye I uninstalled it from there. Very strange indeed lol.

Erm, I have Messenger Plus 3.50.124, Messenger Discovery v3 (3004), Stuff Plug Next Generation 2.1.243, Colour Nick 2.0.78 and Screenshot Sender 3.0.555.

I use Plus! and Messenger Discovery, and i've had the same skin before with no problems, but i'm not familiar with the other plug-ins. They shouldn't be a problem really.. I think when I had the longhorn skin there was a uninstaller in the MSN Messenger folder, did you ever see one in there? You sure there aren't any files to do with Longhorn skin in the MSN folder?

Ye. I uninstalled it from the Add/Remove Programs. This is my MSN Messenger folder as it is at the moment (attached), doesn't seem to be anything related to The Longhorn MSN Skin.

This could work. Go to Skin Manager. Its a program which lets you easily apply skins. It has an orinigal skin on it but im not sure if it works for MSN 6.

Your MSN folder looks fine to me.

The only thing I can think of now is to Uninstall MSN Messenger + MSN Plus! then restart your computer then re-install them both.

I can't see why that shouldn't clear the skin completely.

Sorry I couldn't be of much help, hope ya sort it out.

..............................................YAY! its back and working fine with the original icon now. Don't know what I did but its back again.

Thanks for all your help guys

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Originally posted by ProblemWv Authority
..............................................YAY! its back and working fine with the original icon now. Don't know what I did but its back again.

Thanks for all your help guys

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If my memory dont fail me that is a Rolando skin isnt it? every skin comes with an uninstaller maybe that was the problem .. you should remove using the uninstaller not in Add/remove..

maybe im wrong

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Originally posted by blaCkjaCk
If my memory dont fail me that is a Rolando skin isnt it? every skin comes with an uninstaller maybe that was the problem .. you should remove using the uninstaller not in Add/remove..

maybe im wrong

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Originally posted by ProblemWv Authority
..............................................YAY! its back and working fine with the original icon now. Don't know what I did but its back again.

Thanks for all your help guys

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Originally posted by blaCkjaCk
If my memory dont fail me that is a Rolando skin isnt it? every skin comes with an uninstaller maybe that was the problem .. you should remove using the uninstaller not in Add/remove..

maybe im wrong

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But sometimes programs come with their own uninstaller file.. that's what was meant.

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Originally posted by Tourist
But sometimes programs come with their own uninstaller file.. that's what was meant.

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Originally posted by Ezra
Add/Remove is a list of all the uninstallers

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