Shoutbox

lol well im not that desperate about having Messenger Plus , but thanks for the offer anways

I tried to change Local settings on my International Options, and I select australian English (I think that she have this), but nothing happens on Messenger Plus! after I reboot. So we can suppose that this problem doesn't depend from MS Shell Dlg/Dlg 2, and not even by all the FontSubstitution utility.

Try to do this two things:

- In Control Panel (classic view) > International Options > select Administration Options tab > select Italian like Local Setting (it don't change the language of your system).
Then reboot your pc. Only for check if the error depend from it.

Else try to do it:

- Right click on desktop > Personalize > Screen settings. If you are using Windows Vista Ultimate (or Basic, I don't know), change it to Windows Vista Standard, else change Windows Vista Standard to Windows Vista Ultimate, then Apply. It's possible that a wrong setting in one of these themes provokes the viewing error in MsgPlus.

still doesnt work

So this error doesn't depend from:

- FontSubstitution
- DPL Settings
- Corrupt installation file (have you tried to re-download it, yes?)
- Wrong screen settings

What is the cause????

all i know is that all started after a couple of dayz i installed AIM but den i uninstalled it still didnt work, i hope i didnt stuff up anything

I don't think that AIM can delete the text on Messenger Plus! Live installation program, however...

don't know , thats when it started  sorry if I'm giving you a headache

No headache! But I don't understand which is the really cause...

i always find a way to stuff things up so its not a suprise

I'm sorry to say, AngelDevil, but your conclusions are all wrong.

It is not because nothing changes when you change the local language in Vista from English to Italian that the cause doesn't have something todo with the local settings. For starters English and Italian belong to the same language family. It can also depend on the codepage being used or even the addition of other (incompatible) codepages.

And the influence from the local settings on stuff like this is also very different between XP and Vista (in Vista it doesn't matter as much as it was with XP; all explained in some KB article or on TechNet or MSDN or whatever... cba to look it up now, sorry).

Also, nothing is deleted from the Messenger Plus! dialog; it isn't shown properly (showed too wide, hence the text 'falls off'). Big difference.

It obviously does has something todo with font substituations as the Messenger Plus! dialogs use those MS Shell Dlg fonts. The question is, why is the font substituted with that wide font instead of the normal default font?