Messenger 7.0 stopped working with Vista

I found recently that after a year of using Messenger 7.0.0820 for XP on
Vista I can no longer log in, getting a message about needing to upgrade to
a newer version.

7.0.0820 still works fine on XP. Why does it no longer work on Vista? I've
spent a couple of hours searching for an announcement and the closest I can
find is a comment from Jonathan Kay (in "webcam security" thread) that
someone can use 7.0.0820 as long as it's not on Vista.

hi I have vista 2 ad I canot use msn massenger o yahoo massenger do
know why or is other version that work with vista? I have vista ultimat

--
babykissimmee

Greetings,

To be honest, it's been awhile since this has come up, so I can't really remember the exact
reasons, but only Windows Live Messenger 8.1+ is supported on Vista. All previous versions
of Messenger, including MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger, do not work properly.

If I recall there's some display issues with the toasts, voice/video doesn't work properly
and possibly other things in MSN Messenger on Vista.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--



"NickS_UK" <> wrote in message
news:AD9800D9-4990-45D2-AE79-...
> I found recently that after a year of using Messenger 7.0.0820 for XP on
> Vista I can no longer log in, getting a message about needing to upgrade to
> a newer version.
>
> 7.0.0820 still works fine on XP. Why does it no longer work on Vista? I've
> spent a couple of hours searching for an announcement and the closest I can
> find is a comment from Jonathan Kay (in "webcam security" thread) that
> someone can use 7.0.0820 as long as it's not on Vista.

It's only in the past week or so that it's refused to log in. Today I used
7.0.0820 on a Windows Server 2003 machine that I don't use that often, and
the same thing happened. I fixed that by setting Windows 2000 compatibility
mode in the properties for msnmsgr.exe (it didn't occur to me to try that
with Vista).

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> To be honest, it's been awhile since this has come up, so I can't really remember the exact
> reasons, but only Windows Live Messenger 8.1+ is supported on Vista. All previous versions
> of Messenger, including MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger, do not work properly.
>
> If I recall there's some display issues with the toasts, voice/video doesn't work properly
> and possibly other things in MSN Messenger on Vista.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
> --
>
>
>
> "NickS_UK" <> wrote in message
> news:AD9800D9-4990-45D2-AE79-...
> > I found recently that after a year of using Messenger 7.0.0820 for XP on
> > Vista I can no longer log in, getting a message about needing to upgrade to
> > a newer version.
> >
> > 7.0.0820 still works fine on XP. Why does it no longer work on Vista? I've
> > spent a couple of hours searching for an announcement and the closest I can
> > find is a comment from Jonathan Kay (in "webcam security" thread) that
> > someone can use 7.0.0820 as long as it's not on Vista.
>
>
>

Hi,

It shouldn't happen on Win2k3, however officially the server versions of Windows aren't
supported by Messenger, but it's probably just a mis-configuration on their end (it's
happened before).

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--


"NickS_UK" <> wrote in message
news:FA0A05F5-729B-4A7C-95E2-...
> It's only in the past week or so that it's refused to log in. Today I used
> 7.0.0820 on a Windows Server 2003 machine that I don't use that often, and
> the same thing happened. I fixed that by setting Windows 2000 compatibility
> mode in the properties for msnmsgr.exe (it didn't occur to me to try that
> with Vista).
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> To be honest, it's been awhile since this has come up, so I can't really remember the
>> exact
>> reasons, but only Windows Live Messenger 8.1+ is supported on Vista. All previous
>> versions
>> of Messenger, including MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger, do not work properly.
>>
>> If I recall there's some display issues with the toasts, voice/video doesn't work properly
>> and possibly other things in MSN Messenger on Vista.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> "NickS_UK" <> wrote in message
>> news:AD9800D9-4990-45D2-AE79-...
>> > I found recently that after a year of using Messenger 7.0.0820 for XP on
>> > Vista I can no longer log in, getting a message about needing to upgrade to
>> > a newer version.
>> >
>> > 7.0.0820 still works fine on XP. Why does it no longer work on Vista? I've
>> > spent a couple of hours searching for an announcement and the closest I can
>> > find is a comment from Jonathan Kay (in "webcam security" thread) that
>> > someone can use 7.0.0820 as long as it's not on Vista.
>>
>>
>>