outlook express and MSN messenger

Ok. Will give that a go. Thanks.

Looks like that may have worked. Thanks again Photolady. I will give it a few days and post back with the results.

I hope that fixed it. Otherwise you may have to do a repair of OE to fix the problem. I'll keep my fingers crossed this works. ;)

With your fingers crossed and my toes crossed, this could work.:) ;)

Well that lasted a day. When i reboot they all go back in . Not only that but. I have my monitor to turn off 10 minutes after i leave the computer. That setting never stays put. Half the time i have to go back into properties and reset it.

And another problem. If i go into my pictures. The display comes up tiles. I set it to LIST because its easier to go through all my photos. That setting never stays either. Goes back to tiles.

Is this a problem with XP?
I think its more a problem with microsoft garbage.

I really dont understand why everything has gone microsoft. It seems to me that it isnt worth beans and there are so many problems with it, why hasnt the industry gone Mac. Or is mac just as bad a MS??
Ok. Thats my rant. Im done.


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Why don't you try what I suggested?

Do as Ecross suggested and remove Windows Messenger altogther. I have MSN Messenger 6.2 and have none of the problems you are experiencing and that is because I removed Windows Messenger. Give it try....

I removed windows messenger a few weeks ago. It should be in my settings/add/remove folder. Its not there . Anywhere else i should look. I have msn messenger 6.2 . Maybe i will get rid of it and reinstall it.

Any ideas why my other settings wont stay? IE, my pictures

Actually I've never seen my MSN Messenger show up in OE only Windows Messenger. And Windows Messenger isn't in Add/Remove except under Windows components, and even if you take the check mark out in there, that is not going to remove it.

One other thing you could do is repair IE/OE. See the link below:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/repair_r...e_and_oe_6.htm

Hi again. I didnt do anything new to the box but now it seems to be working fine. No msn contacts in my outlook box. Strange box it is.
For some reason this computer doesnt like to remember settings.

Thanks for the help. Im sure i will be back for more.;)

You could also do a few maintenance checks to make sure your files and folders are in sync with each other. Go to the "Run" in your Start menu and while your xp cd is in the drive, type sfc /scannow that will fix any wayward files and may possibly fix your problems with your computer not remembering settings. If that doesn't do it, go back to the same place (Run) and type in chkdsk /r please note the space between k and / and also with the xp cd in the drive.

Thanks Photolady.

Oh noooooo. I did what you said Photolady. sfc /scannow. Now my screen is completely buggy. No colors. Icons are very large, no resolution.

I try to set my resolution to other than 600x800. Wont let me. Also, monitor is stuck on color quality 4 bit. Cant do anything with it. Nice.

I like the system restore button. Thats nice though. Im back to square 1. wonder what happened??

I have no idea what happened there but........sfc /scannow only fixes corrupt files does not delete anything.