I'd been using 8.5 for a long time. Yesterday MSN popped up with the 'we have a new version of MSN available. So I upgraded to 9.0. But I took an immediate dislike to it; the color scheme is awful and there's just too much useless extra junk. So I uninstall it, get the 8.5 install from oldversion.com, and get 8.5 up and running again. But what happens when I try to sign in? A message of "A newer version is available. You must install the newer version to continue. Would you like to do this now?" Chosing no doesn't tell them to bug off and let me sign in....no, since I upgraded the once Microsoft is FORCING me to stick with 9.0. This is absurd and has me quite peeved. I thought maybe it was just because 8.5 was a beta version, but installing 8.0 gave me the same thing.

Is there any way to get around this? Like some system file I can mess with to erase evidence that I ever had 9.0 on here or something?

I'd like to know this as well. Not only are the things listed above true, but this version of MSN doesn't have Mess Patch developed for it yet.

Success! I deleted the remaining program files/windows live/messenger folder remaining from the previous uninstall. Installed 8.5, still got the forced upgrade message. But changing the compatibility mode of msnmsgr.exe to Windows 2000, then double-clicking it to re-install the messenger, this did the trick.

how do i do that?

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Originally posted by jawandha
how do i do that?

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that didnt work for me.. is there anything else i can do? well it got messenger to work but it got rid of messenger plus how do i fix that??