Re: Windows Live Messenger Upgrade

I did the WLM upgrade and my system got hosed. I had to do an image
restore to recover. With all of the problems being posted I would
like to stay with 2008 version. Is there any way to disable the nag
message about upgrading?

thanks

Greetings,

There is no real "nice" way to disable the nag message. In other words, you'd need to patch
the Messenger client's executable. I've not come up with a great solution for that yet.
However, is it just the toast message that's annoying you or the yellow bar in the contact
list? Compared to previous releases, it's actually pretty tame although I can understand why
some people would be annoyed.

I'm curious about you mean by "hosed" -- is it just that Windows wouldn't boot, blue screens,
or what? In my experience, 2009 has been far better at not crashing the machine (mainly
because Shared Folders is gone).

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"oldman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I did the WLM upgrade and my system got hosed. I had to do an image
> restore to recover. With all of the problems being posted I would
> like to stay with 2008 version. Is there any way to disable the nag
> message about upgrading?
>
> thanks

After the upgrade the following problems occurred:
1- my contacts were lost for both email and in messenger,
2- the mail program started downloading from my ISP virtually all of
the messages I had previously seen and processed.
3- messages from ok senders started be retagged as spam or junk most
of which were fine. This looked like the safe senders got some how
clobbered.

After my image restore all was back to normal. Before I get gutsy
enough to try it again I will image the system once more and then
immediately try the upgrade.

In your response you talk about shared folders gone. Are you saying
that before I try the upgrade I should remove all sharing till the
upgrade is completed cleanly? At present all of my folders are
shared.

Thanks for the response.

oldgray

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:04:53 -0400, "Jonathan Kay [MVP]"
<> wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>There is no real "nice" way to disable the nag message. In other words, you'd need to patch
>the Messenger client's executable. I've not come up with a great solution for that yet.
>However, is it just the toast message that's annoying you or the yellow bar in the contact
>list? Compared to previous releases, it's actually pretty tame although I can understand why
>some people would be annoyed.
>
>I'm curious about you mean by "hosed" -- is it just that Windows wouldn't boot, blue screens,
>or what? In my experience, 2009 has been far better at not crashing the machine (mainly
>because Shared Folders is gone).
>
>--
>Jonathan Kay
>Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation

Hi oldgray,

Got you.
1. Been reported here tons of times and unfortunately there is no real fix. To be clear,
they're not lost or removed, they're just not displayed.
2/3. I've seen the latest Live Mail chew up things before as well, but I'm no Mail expert.

To be honest, I'm surprised you're interested in trying again at all. Then again, imaging is
wonderful.

By Shared Folders I mean the Shared Folders feature in Windows Live Messenger 8.x, which is
unrelated to Windows' file sharing. There is nothing to "prepare" for this feature
disappearing, it just simply is gone. Since you've obviously not used it (there's no way you
can "share" everything, it's just a special folder and subfolders in your profile which is
shared), you can forget I even mentioned it.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--


"oldman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> After the upgrade the following problems occurred:
> 1- my contacts were lost for both email and in messenger,
> 2- the mail program started downloading from my ISP virtually all of
> the messages I had previously seen and processed.
> 3- messages from ok senders started be retagged as spam or junk most
> of which were fine. This looked like the safe senders got some how
> clobbered.
>
> After my image restore all was back to normal. Before I get gutsy
> enough to try it again I will image the system once more and then
> immediately try the upgrade.
>
> In your response you talk about shared folders gone. Are you saying
> that before I try the upgrade I should remove all sharing till the
> upgrade is completed cleanly? At present all of my folders are
> shared.
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> oldgray
>
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:04:53 -0400, "Jonathan Kay [MVP]"
> <> wrote:
>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>There is no real "nice" way to disable the nag message. In other words, you'd need to
>>patch
>>the Messenger client's executable. I've not come up with a great solution for that yet.
>>However, is it just the toast message that's annoying you or the yellow bar in the contact
>>list? Compared to previous releases, it's actually pretty tame although I can understand
>>why
>>some people would be annoyed.
>>
>>I'm curious about you mean by "hosed" -- is it just that Windows wouldn't boot, blue
>>screens,
>>or what? In my experience, 2009 has been far better at not crashing the machine (mainly
>>because Shared Folders is gone).
>>
>>--
>>Jonathan Kay
>>Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>>MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>>MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>>Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>>(c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation