MSN Add-ins

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?)

Greetings,

To quickly fix this, simply downgrade back to the previous version from here:
http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b4...
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

"MartynB" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%23wObvUlrEHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> After installing SP2, messenger was automatically upgraded (downgraded??) to version 4.7,
> but the ability to see how many Hotmail messages and to receive an Alert when a new mail
> arrives has disappeared.
>
> I downloaded version 5.0 (which I assume to be later than 4.7) together with the MSN Add-in
> (msnaddin.exe) from
> http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73... ,
> but when executing the Add-in I get a message which says:- "You do not have the latest
> version of Messenger. Please install the latest version from
> http://messenger.microsoft.com" . I wish I knew what was going on....
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?)

Thanks Jonathan, that did the trick.

Out of interest, is there somewhere where one can find the history of
different Messenger versions showing which features are available and which
bugs were fixed?

Martyn

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@jonathankay.com> wrote in message
news:uOU8haprEHA.896@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Greetings,
>
> To quickly fix this, simply downgrade back to the previous version from
> here:
> http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b4...
> ____________________________________________
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>
> "MartynB" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:%23wObvUlrEHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> After installing SP2, messenger was automatically upgraded (downgraded??)
>> to version 4.7, but the ability to see how many Hotmail messages and to
>> receive an Alert when a new mail arrives has disappeared.
>>
>> I downloaded version 5.0 (which I assume to be later than 4.7) together
>> with the MSN Add-in (msnaddin.exe) from
>> http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73... ,
>> but when executing the Add-in I get a message which says:- "You do not
>> have the latest version of Messenger. Please install the latest version
>> from http://messenger.microsoft.com" . I wish I knew what was going
>> on....
>>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?)

Hi Martyn,

Unfortunately there is no such history at this point. Someone (read as myself) should really
make one at some point...
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

"MartynB" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ugXCH$4rEHA.1692@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Thanks Jonathan, that did the trick.
>
> Out of interest, is there somewhere where one can find the history of different Messenger
> versions showing which features are available and which bugs were fixed?
>
> Martyn
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@jonathankay.com> wrote in message
> news:uOU8haprEHA.896@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Greetings,
>>
>> To quickly fix this, simply downgrade back to the previous version from here:
>> http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b4...
>> ____________________________________________
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
>> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>>
>> "MartynB" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23wObvUlrEHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>> After installing SP2, messenger was automatically upgraded (downgraded??) to version 4.7,
>>> but the ability to see how many Hotmail messages and to receive an Alert when a new mail
>>> arrives has disappeared.
>>>
>>> I downloaded version 5.0 (which I assume to be later than 4.7) together with the MSN
>>> Add-in (msnaddin.exe) from
>>> http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73...
>>> , but when executing the Add-in I get a message which says:- "You do not have the latest
>>> version of Messenger. Please install the latest version from
>>> http://messenger.microsoft.com" . I wish I knew what was going on....
>>>
>>
>>
>
>