Messenger × Plug and Play service

Hi,
On my notebook, running Vista x86 Czech Home Premium, I cannot start the
latest (czech) version of Live Messenger. The process msnmsgr.exe just stops
responding, and is blocked such way that it cannot be terminated using Task
Manager neither windows can log out on system shut-down. The messenger's
main window is not appearing. The messenger does not know about itself,
because you can run plenty of msnmsgr.exe simultaneously.

After lot of playing with system configuration, I noticed that when I
disable the Plug and Play (dcomlaunch) service at system startup, everything
works correctly. However, I cannot of course plug-in my wireless modem into
PCMCIA slot, nothing happens. So...internet or messenger, not very good
choice, is it?

Have somebody already met this issue or do you know what to try
before reinstalling the computer? Or perhaps what I can send to analyze this
behaviour befor reinstall?

Thanks,
Jan

Greetings Jan,

There are some outstanding bugs describing what you're seeing with some routers and their
UPnP functionality. I'm curious what happens if your wireless modem is in but not actually
connected to anything...

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Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"Jan Kucera" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> On my notebook, running Vista x86 Czech Home Premium, I cannot start the latest (czech)
> version of Live Messenger. The process msnmsgr.exe just stops responding, and is blocked
> such way that it cannot be terminated using Task Manager neither windows can log out on
> system shut-down. The messenger's main window is not appearing. The messenger does not know
> about itself, because you can run plenty of msnmsgr.exe simultaneously.
>
> After lot of playing with system configuration, I noticed that when I disable the Plug and
> Play (dcomlaunch) service at system startup, everything works correctly. However, I cannot
> of course plug-in my wireless modem into PCMCIA slot, nothing happens. So...internet or
> messenger, not very good choice, is it?
>
> Have somebody already met this issue or do you know what to try before reinstalling
> the computer? Or perhaps what I can send to analyze this behaviour befor reinstall?
>
> Thanks,
> Jan

Greetings Jonathan,
actually the behaviour I have described appears just when the Plug and
Play service is running, regardless having the modem in or not. So I'm
afraid this has nothing to do with UPnP, the messenger does not even display
the main sign-in window, so no connection could be tried. I'm seeing
messenger using a couple of megabytes of memory, but on the critical
computer, it stops around 1084 kB, sometimes not even so much.

So to answer your question, nothing changes if the modem (GPRS) is not
connected.
Any other ideas? Making a dump file wouldn't help me a lot, would it..

Jan


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:0015E6B9-146C-4403-842C-...
> Greetings Jan,
>
> There are some outstanding bugs describing what you're seeing with some
> routers and their UPnP functionality. I'm curious what happens if your
> wireless modem is in but not actually connected to anything...
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
>
> "Jan Kucera" <> wrote in message
> news:59D609BF-406C-47BE-85B0-...
>> Hi,
>> On my notebook, running Vista x86 Czech Home Premium, I cannot start the
>> latest (czech) version of Live Messenger. The process msnmsgr.exe just
>> stops responding, and is blocked such way that it cannot be terminated
>> using Task Manager neither windows can log out on system shut-down. The
>> messenger's main window is not appearing. The messenger does not know
>> about itself, because you can run plenty of msnmsgr.exe simultaneously.
>>
>> After lot of playing with system configuration, I noticed that when I
>> disable the Plug and Play (dcomlaunch) service at system startup,
>> everything works correctly. However, I cannot of course plug-in my
>> wireless modem into PCMCIA slot, nothing happens. So...internet or
>> messenger, not very good choice, is it?
>>
>> Have somebody already met this issue or do you know what to try
>> before reinstalling the computer? Or perhaps what I can send to analyze
>> this behaviour befor reinstall?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jan
>
>