Removing MSN Messenger is as simple as opening Add/Remove Programs, highlighting "MSN Messenger" and clicking the Remove button. Works fine on every operating system.
MSN Messenger doesn't load now when i start gamevoice or outlook express
GameVoice hasn't hooked MSN Messenger since version 4.6...but of course, that's only on downlevel. On XP, GameVoice has always, and will always,
only hook Windows Messenger...it will never hook MSN Messenger on XP.
OE continues to hook MSN Messenger v5.0 on downlevel, tho' there are a few minor bugs that don't occur with 4.6. Like GameVoice, OE has always, and will always,
only hook Windows Messenger on XP...it will never hook MSN Messenger on XP.
BUT it takes FOREVER for them to load now.
This issue has been known since XP shipped. Some people don't experience this problem...some do. You are obviously one of the unfortunate ones.
even though MSN 8 runs perfectly fine after MSN Messenger 5 is forcibly shut down through task manager
MSN8 will also run perfectly fine if Messenger were to crash, which is the equivilent of killing the process in TaskMan...not many customers would be very happy if their entire Internet session was ended due to one errant program blowing up. So MSN8 gracefully continues to work...