I installed MSN Messenger 7 a while ago and figured I might as well install Messenger Plus (3.52) also. I did, and that's when it turned out like this:



No names shows up in the contact list, not even my own, and I can't interact with anybody in any way. The only way to be able to use MSN again at all is to make numerous system restores. Even so, Plus! won't work with it still.

If I uninstall both MSN and Plus! and remove all the traces of it etc and install just MSN again, it's still as in the pic above. I've been trying different versions of Plus! This is just the tip of the iceberg of everything that I've tried, but despite that: No luck.

Download Messenger Plus! 3.52 from the site, install and your problems will be solved.

Yeah. I've been trying 3.52. Problems NOT solved.

Do you have MSN Messenger 7.0.0777? If you uninstalled Plus! and it still happens, then it isn't Plus!

try this uninstall MsgPlus an MSN Messenger 7 an the plugins if any an then go to

START > RUN > type REGEDIT AN PRESS ok OR HIT enter > THEN GO TO

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/MSNMessenger <-- delete that key there

         then go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/MSNMessenger <-- an dlete that key there

an then reboot eh PC an reinstall MSDN7  an then Plus if you wish

Hmm. Ok, I WOULD try that if it just wasn't for the fact that there's no where to download MSN 7 because _all_ the links are broken. By the way, I was in Regedit but I didn't do anything, even so, it says when I try to uninstall MSN Messenger (it says it's MSN Messenger 6.2 ) that:

"The function that you try to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.

Click OK if you want to try again, or assign a searchpath to a folder that includes the installationpackage MsnMsgs.msi in the box below".

Now this is starting to get weird. What's happening to MSN >_<

MSN Messenger

Do a clean install of both:
- Uninstall MSNM and Plus!
- Reboot
- Remove all folders in program files folder pointing towards MSN Messenger and Plus!
- Reinstall both

In fact, that's not a Messenger Plus! bug, but a Messenger bug, as weird as it is.

Nothing of those stuff you said worked and I can't do a clean uninstall of MSN Messenger (it says it's 6.2 btw) because when I try to uninstall it I get:

"The function that you try to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.

Click OK if you want to try again, or assign a searchpath to a folder that includes the installationpackage MsnMsgs.msi in the box below".

They need to release a new version asap T_T;

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Originally posted by Tesla7zap
They need to release a new version asap T_T;

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One more thing to add:
This problem could be caused by the Handwriting plugin!

Firstly do what CookieRevised suggested to fix your installs

Then uninstall the Handwriting Plugin:

- close all instances of MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger completely,
- delete the file MsnHandWriting.dll from your Messenger Plus! Plugins directory
(default directory is: c:\program files\messenger plus!3\plugins).
- Go to add/remove programs in the software tab in your configuration settings.
Look for "Ink Redistributables" or "InfoPen", if existing, click it and uninstall it.


@ Cookie: See Contacts! disappear
and andrey's reply to Contacts! disappear

Well. Installed, uninstall with MSN 7. I hade an older installationfile of MSN 6.2 on my computer.. I downloaded the other MSN 6.2 installation file and installed that.. Instead of overwriting, it became a new MSN 6.2 So I have two MSN 6.2 now because I can't uninstall the other one because

"The function that you try to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.

Click OK if you want to try again, or assign a searchpath to a folder that includes the installationpackage MsnMsgs.msi in the box below".

Pops up if I try.. So I installed MSN 7 and Plus!.. still dosen't work..

And there was no such thing as info pen or Ink Redistributables in add/remove programs in the control panel and no plugins in the MSGplus plugin directory...

Tesla7zap, do you have Windows XP? If so, add me to your MSN (thus without Messenger Plus!, so it runs) and I can try to sort it out for you remotely. I'm on msn for the next hour: [************]

EDIT: didn't work, we are both behind a router :/ *beeping* remote assistance (or *beeping* us to not install decent remote assistence software or forwarding the needed ports )

Note to Tesla7zap, I'll be back tomorow (and/or this evening/night) to walk you thru the needed steps. But beware this can take a long time

The problem is, it dosen't run without MSN plus! either.. It will just run with some old version of Plus! thats not even compatible with MSN 7.0.. There's a Plus! menu in MSN but the only thing in there is "Compatibility info"...Yeah, I have XP.. I added you now..