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Re: Running messenger live on Win 2000

 
 
Jonathan Kay [MVP]
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      05-17-2006
Greetings,

Even if you force it to install it won't work -- it's calling libraries and functions that
don't exist on Windows 2000.

Some people have spent some time trying to make this work without much result so it's
probably not worth it.

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"Bob" <> wrote in message news:Xns97C68581FAC7Freplygroupcom@216.196.97.131. ..
> Since were not going to upgrade our computers at work just so I can run the
> new messenger, anyone know the command line switch to disable version
> checking when installing the messenger live?



 
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