gHacks technology news » msn errors http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:11:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Completely Uninstall Microsoft Messenger Variants http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/29/completely-uninstall-microsoft-messenger-variants/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/29/completely-uninstall-microsoft-messenger-variants/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:24:59 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8607 Microsoft Messenger variants, such as MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or Windows Messenger, sometimes cause difficulties during uninstallation throwing error messages such as “Another version of the product is already installed”, “Your computer has a newer version of MSN Messenger than the one you are trying to install”, ““Your computer has a newer version of Windows Live Messenger than the one you are trying to install” or “The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable”.

It can be quite frustrating to discover the root of the problem especially when the user wants a clean uninstall to install a newer version of the product again. Keith over at Techie Buzz discovered the Zap Messenger application which can completely uninstall MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Messenger from a computer system.

It solves all kind of problems that prevent the uninstallation of those products and is not limited to the ones mentioned in the first paragraph. Zap Messenger is a portable application that does require the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0.

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The author is not listing the operating systems the software program is compatible with but it seems that it should run fine on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/29/completely-uninstall-microsoft-messenger-variants/feed/ 6 MSN E-Fix another tool to fix MSN Errors http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/19/msn-e-fix-another-tool-to-fix-msn-errors/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/19/msn-e-fix-another-tool-to-fix-msn-errors/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:27:08 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3857 The MSN Messenger seems to be highly popular in Italy because this is already the second tool, the first was MSN Repair, that I’m reviewing that is fixing MSN Messenger errors that was developed in Italy. Which leads to the conclusion that the MSN Messenger could be popular in Italy, or that the Italian version of MSN could be buggy or that Italian users are causing those bugs, hehe. Whatever it is MSN E-Fix fixes several error messages that MSN users can encounter while using the instant messenger.

MSN E-Fix can be run from any location and it actually comes in four different language versions which is surely an improvement over the other program that I reviewed some days ago which was only available in Italian. It was not hard to use though but I still prefer a program in a language that I understand to avoid errors. The supported languages are English, Italian, French and Spanish with Dutch scheduled to be included in one of the future releases.

Once started the program displays a list of error codes on the left side that can be checked and a Go button that should be pressed once all errors that should be fixed have been checked. The author send me a message where he compares his software to MSN Repair. I have no way of checking those claims because as you might know I do not use an Instant Messenger which is one reason why I will not publish them here.

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Anyone with MSN Messenger and some errors who would try them out is welcome to let me know about the results though.

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