When I start OE v6 I get error for MSN Messenger ??

OE v6
MSN Messenger v6
Win98SE

If I don't have MSN Messenger on my tray icon I get an error going into OE that says:

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MSNMSGR executed an invalid instruction in
module <unknown> at 0000:00000123.
Registers:
EAX=011d07fc CS=0167 EIP=00000123 EFLGS=00010287
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=0098fad8 EBP=0098fb18
ECX=010c024c DS=016f ESI=00000001 FS=52af
EDX=8219101c ES=016f EDI=006b5c9c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f0 53 2a 00 f0 53 2a 00 f0 37 26 95 fd 53 2a 00
Stack dump:
00000000 0048434e 011d02f0 011d0314 011d02f0 00484913 011d02f0 011d02f0 00485a85 011d0490 011d02f0 011d04a4 011d02f0 0098fb50 0065aa68 00000006
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This message comes up every single time I go into OE.

But if I have MSN Messenger in my tray icon (not even running, just there) then I don't get the message every time I go into OE. I have tried removing MSN and then reinstalling it.

Any ideas of what this may be. I figured it may be that MSN Messenger is the default messenger so it tries to start. I looked in MSN Messenger for any settings to take off to be default messenger but can not find any.

I don't want to keep MSN Messenger in my tray because I hardly ever use it but do have a friend on it and don't want to get rid of it.

Some suggestions would be appreciated.

I don't know if you've already tried this but go to OE and "tools" then to "general" tab, untick "automatically logon to windows messenger" This will not remove messenger but it will stop it from being accessed in OE.

If you've tried this already, maybe someone else knows the answer.

Hope this helps!!

Okay now this is strange. I did do as you said but the checkmark was not there already. So i figured i would make AOL IM the messenger service thinking there was something wrong with the MSN service. When I did that the AOL IM signon box comes up but then if i click to shut the window the welcome screen for OE just sits there. So then i went back to AOL IM and took away the check mark to make it the default messenger and it still did the same thing; just sits at the welcome screen. Then I double clicked on the MSN messenger icon and OE opened. So I guess it is a setting in OE or something is wrong in OE. Because I took the setting away in IM to be the default messenger and when I start OE IM starts. I shut that down, wait and wait and nothing happens. If I open MSN Messenger then my OE opens. This is really strange.

Any other thoughts here people.

Thanks

Marka, I would try doing a repair for IE because it sounds like you may have a corrupt IE. You should be able to do a repair by going to "control panel" to "add/remove" and click on IE, then a window will pop up, then select "repair" it is the second option in the radio buttons.

Please confirm. A repair of IE or OE.

I wasn't sure if IE related some how to this that's why I ask.

Thanks

Marka, because OE and IE are integrated when you repair IE it also repairs OE.