Shoutbox

Hi,

I'm having trouble with my MSN Messenger Activity tab (if the title didn't tip you off )

First, some info about my computer:

I have the latest MSN Messenger and MSN Plus!.
I run windows XP Pro SP 2 and it's been formatted only a month or 2 ago.
I have all the critical updates from MS (and most of the optionals, too).
I have no viruses or spyware/adware installed.
I have no firewall running and my router is configured correctly (I think)

When I click the Activities tab in a message window, I am limited to just a few choices. I want to be able to use Whiteboard, which isn't showing up. I have tried searching Google for information but I have found basically nothing useful.

I thought it might be caused because my computer cannot access the MSN Activity site (or something; I found info about this on Google) so I reconfigured my router and disabled all blocked addresses in IE, etc. to no avail.

I have tried reinstalling both MSN Messenger and MSN Plus!
I have tried with MSN Plus! uninstalled (it's not the problem, of course, but I wanted to be sure)
I've tried basically everything I could think of (including starting every MSN service, and enabling such things as remote assistance)

I am not sure what the problem could be. Could it be an option I have disabled that is preventing Messenger from accessing the online lits of activities?

Any ideas you have will be appreciated. If you know ports I should enable, options I should have enabled, Services to fix, etc. I'd really like to know. No matter how 'basic' or 'common sense' you thik it is. I tweak my computer quite a lot so it's VERY possible I've inadvertantly disabled something that MSN needs to run the activities/get the list.

If you have any questions about my setup feel free to ask

Thanks,
Rick

Can you show us your activity menu to see which differences you have.

You maybe need Journal Viewer and Windows Messenger if you have not.

Well I am actually installing WLM right now to see if that might change anything, but here's the activities I have:

Music Mix
Reality Fame
MSN Photo Swap
MSN Calendar Sharing

Request Remote Assistance

And I have both of those already. I do believe whiteboard relies on Windows Messenger from using it in the past. But I'm not sure why I can't get a list of other activities, when the other computers on my network can (which I setup)