I have been experiencing a fairly rare but major bug with tabbed chats. Every once in a while, I open a second chat window and get this:



Both chats are visible as normal in the taskbar:



The tabs show on both chat windows and can be clicked on as normal. The only fix is to restart messenger.

I've had this 3 or 4 times but could not reproduce it.  It all fixes up if you close the chat you just opened and re-open it.  Also I found it was only when you clicked on the new chat tab, but if you click to an old one it looks as though it is fixed.  I never had it show multiple chats, though I think you are running Vista where I'm running XP which may be the reason for that

I've experienced this once, it kinda crashed my Messenger.

I'm running XP and the latest Plus!, and for me it only fixes when I restart messenger ...also, I don't know if this is related but sometimes after I close a chat window with that problem I can't reopen it, and the "Exit" item on the tray menu doesn't work

Bump...it still hasn't been fixed in version 4.20...

EDIT: Screenshots seem to be down in the first post.

Many wierd things happen on your computer, ever thought of reinstall Windows? Might help for most of the problems.

Good Idea Vikke. Yes this does happen but for all the negatives in tabbed chats (im using them right now ) the positives outway them. The more memory you have spare the less problems you'll get with tabbed chats. Also if your opening a large program like Paint Shop Pro your tabbed chats will blank out while all memory is used to help open up PSP.

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Many wierd things happen on your computer, ever thought of reinstall Windows? Might help for most of the problems.

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Originally posted by vikke
Many wierd things happen on your computer, ever thought of reinstall Windows? Might help for most of the problems.

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Doesn't really sound like a problem. Tabbed chat uses software scripting that doesn't come already with WLM therefore it can contain bugs. And well if its comming from an add-on i.e MPL then its relying on that not WLM.

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Originally posted by deAd

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Many wierd things happen on your computer, ever thought of reinstall Windows? Might help for most of the problems.

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No they don't...where'd you think of that from o.o?

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Originally posted by deAd

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Originally posted by vikke
Many wierd things happen on your computer, ever thought of reinstall Windows? Might help for most of the problems.

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No they don't...where'd you think of that from o.o?

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Maany SP3 problems for example

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Once you minimize your tabbed chats (2 or more) by pressing Alt+Tab you can't restore the chat window, it doesn't even show up!!

Can you take a screenshot of the chat window that exibits the problem?

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Originally posted by Patchou
Can you take a screenshot of the chat window that exibits the problem?

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Patchou, see the attached picture for a screenshot I took ages back of the same thing.

No, not the same at all

The tabs show up but there's no icon or text inside of them, and they work as normal. However, the taskbar buttons for each window are still present and if I close a chat window it won't open again, and its tab is not removed from the tab bar.

Sorry, im sure i remembered the pictures looking very similar to mine

markee: the problem you show in your screenshot is suppsoed to be fixed in version 4.20 actually .

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Originally posted by Patchou
markee: the problem you show in your screenshot is suppsoed to be fixed in version 4.20 actually .

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Yet, I see now that nobody came up with a solution to deAd's problem. That's awful for me cos I wasted ALL day trying to fix the exact same problem deAd has talked about here.

Dimitrakopulos, today I noticed the same problem after installing the MessengerDiscovery update (1.5.800). If I disable tabbed chats of Messenger Plus!, there is no problem anymore until I re-enable it. Do you have Messengerdiscovery's this latest version?

I do have Messenger Discovery also, yes; on the "About" page it only says "1.5", no detailed numbers, but it should be the last version as far as I can tell, it's set to automatic updates anyway.
And yes there's no problem if you simply cancel tabbed chattin, but I need tabbed chatting :/

You know, I thought about they could block each other's way somehow, MPL and MD. You think it's that? If so how can I fix it? Maybe an option in one of the two does something to create this bug or something like that. But I don't know, nor am I someone to examine a program's options, I need help please.

By the way here's a ss:
(You may click the bugged, non-existent tabs, they aren't really present and thus the click will do nothing.)

Besides all that I forgot to add that, unlike deAd, restarting WLM or many things I tried so far don't fix nothing.

You can check the build number of your Discovery version from the buttom of its About window.

What you can all do to prevent this problem is disabling tabbed chats of Plus as I did so . I reported this problem to NeutralizeR, the Turkish translator of MessengerDiscovery and he said that the developer had been informed about the case and he would fix it asap. That is it for now, I will wait for an update and continue using seperate chat windows for a while.

Thank you ahmetgns for your interest. And as I checked my MD build is 800.

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It wouldn't be such a problem to me to use separate windows till it's fixed.

However, it still does this:

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It causes another bug to occur: doesn't show what you last spoke with your contact on a new convo window, just the last words spoken right before this bug has occured. Albeit this graphical error, it randomizes a chance about whether it will save your chat log or not, meaning, sometimes it keeps chat logs as normal and sometimes it does not.

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Without Messenger Discovery it works fine. With Messenger Discovery it doesn't... seems like something needs to be fixed with Messenger Discovery not Messenger Plus!...

Well, now I started considering uninstalling this update of Discovery and installing the previous version. Because now I noticed that, even if you disable tabbed chats for Plus!, Discovery's this bug still prevents chat windows closing internally which means that you don't see the chat window when you close it but WLM still thinks that it is open hence it doesn't save the conversation in that window, because WLM saves the conversation while closing the window. Since, there is no way of closing those windows other than exiting Messenger itself, so your conversations after installing Discovery haven't been saved at all by WLM.

A similar problem appears for logging option of Plus!. Although Plus! saves the conversation more recently without the need of closing windows, when you close and reopen the chat window for the same contact, it creates a new file blabla@hotmail.com (2). And this goes on for every reopening the chat window.

As I said. Messenger Discovery bug not Plus!.

ahmetgns, good observation, it fraks-up the logs exactly like that. so today I did what I see now matty here has said-- delete MD.

Well, sorry, not to sound as a kiss-up but Plus! obviously has better features than it. So goodbye MD till you don't bug MPL.