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    xps M1330. MSN Live needs to install itself upon every boot up

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by thelinkster007, Mar 24, 2008.

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    thelinkster007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Driving me nuts.

    everytime I turn on the m1330 MSN Live Messenger automatically starts installing itself once booted into Windows Vista.

    And without fail, it will always give the same error message after about 10 seconds and say "IS NOT A VALID MSN INSTALL" or something like that

    and then what always follows is it begins to de-install itself. Eg the install bar goes backwards.

    then only after pressing Cancel or OK a bunch of times MSN Live Messenger will pop up and will be usable.

    This entire process always takes a couple of minutes and its ****ing ridiculous.

    For starters, MSN was downloaded from the Microsoft Website so of course it's valid. I've also tried to uninstall and reinstall via different downloads of MSN but it always has the same problem. The program works, but It always goes thru the same phase of bull**** before actually being usable.

    Can anyone please help me this is driving me up the wall.
     
    thelinkster007, Mar 24, 2008
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