Greetings,
ZapMessenger should help out with this:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/redir/zapmessenger.asp
After you've zapped it, you can install Messenger as you wish.
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"lolz2009" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hello
>
> I am looking at a friends PC it has Windows Vista 32 Bit OS.
>
> It has had Windows live messenger on it and it stopped working it was
> removed and for the add and remove tool.
>
> We have tried to reinstall it but it keeps on saying that it has
> already been installed.
>
> So we have gone into My computer and have removed the folder it self
> but it was tell me that it was installed.
>
> It has also been removed for the registry but it is still say that it
> is installed.
>
> We have removed and anything that has to do with windows live messenger
> on this PC and it still say that there is windows live messenger on the
> PC.
>
> Any ideas..
>
> Thanks
>
>
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> lolz2009