I'm pretty certain this isn't a msgplus problem, but rather something a registry tweaker program screwed up a while ago:

After downloading the msn messenger beta update it refused to install stating my system was not XP when, as you can see from the image, it in fact is. I have no idea where !VER reads it's data from, if I knew I could probably correct the problem

Anyone have any ideas?

Start > Run > Winver

Tell what it says

Here ya go, 100% XP from the looks of things

Start > Run > Cmd /k prompt $v

and tell me what that says

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
Start > Run > Cmd /k prompt $v

and tell me what that says

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Don't you have any Service Packs?
Do you have any patch?

Run the attached program, it will show you a message with Windows version numbers and will copy it to the clipboard, paste it here.

Yeah I had SP1 before now, but my computer recently screwed up so I had to do a repair install, which I thought would actually fix the Win2000 problem, but it didn't.
GetWinVer:


And that prompt thing shows "Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]"

EDIT:

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Qjimbo, do you know what the tweaker was? Can you re-download it again and change what you have done?

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Well, everything looks alright there, so it could be a MsgPlus bug, I don't know where it gets that information from.

Messenger Plus! uses the Windows API to get the version of Windows. If it gets it wrong, it means the API sends the wrong values . Could it be that you changed the compatibility settings of msnmsgr.exe ? Windows (and other programs) can fool specific software to think they are running on different versions of windows sometimes.

Cool, you can fool the (!VER) command with the compatibilty modes

mine does that for plus!...it says i have an older version in wich i just installed a newer one

OMG You're right, it was in compatibility mode! I never set that @_@ What the hell caused that to happen =/

Patchou is right... It's probably the compatibility settings (didn't think of that before).

Here's what my program says when running in Win2K compatibility mode:
GetWindowsVersionString="Windows 2000"
GetWindowsServicePackVersionString=""

Win32MajorVersion=5
Win32MinorVersion=0
Win32BuildNumber=2195
Win32CSDVersion=

(Same as the (!VER) up there).

Lopardo... bug

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Info
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GetWindowsVersionString=""

GetWindowsServicePackVersionString=""



Win32MajorVersion=6

Win32MinorVersion=0

Win32BuildNumber=5112

Win32CSDVersion=
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OK   
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GetWindowsVersionString is blank... is there a different function for vista?

Actually, GetWindowsVersionString and GetWindowsServicePackVersionString are not Win32 API functions, they are from a custom library. They just don't know about LH

lmao fix it then!

michael [The Quantex has win2k] says:
Windows Version: Windows 2000, 5.00.2195
Messenger Client Version: 7.0.0816
Messenger Plus! Version: 3.54.0132

worked correctly for me