Wow!!! That's horrible. Luckily, my update went smoothly. I'm using Windows Xp service pack 2, and after merging settings, Msn 6.2, is still working perfectly. Sometimes, there just isn't an explanation, why something will work fine on one system, but totally mess up on another. Glad you got it sorted out, at least. Earle Msn: rowdyamerican@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: rowdyamerican visit my LJ at: http://www.livejournal.com/users/rowdyamerican yahoo: rowdyamerican AIM: rowdyamerican28 ICQ: 155852055 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:01 PM Subject: My JAWS 6.1 disaster! Hi all! I was really excited about the new update to 6.1 so I downloaded and installed it right away. The install went as smooth as you like, everything was cool. So, I murged my settings with 6 and then went to test things out. I am sad to say that, for whatever reason, msn messenger 6.2 would not work on my system here. I could read the input window, in other words I could read what I was typing, but the history window would not read at all. Nothing, zip, absolutely silent! Well, being a former beta tester, I figured, Ok, I'll quit 6.1 and re-launch 6.0 and see if it works there. Well, to my shock and amazement, msn 6.2 didn't work with that either! I was really frazzled now. So, I did a repair on 6 thinking that would work, but no dice. Still same condition as before, I could read what I wrote, but not what other people wrote to me. Well, to make a long story very short, I ended up having to scrap everything and re-installing JAWS 6, and I was even asked to re-activate. I have sent in a request to have my count reset, so hopefully they'll do that in a few days. I'm just really upset that the whole upgrade process didn't work the way it was advertised to. So, if you're using MSN Messenger 6.2 with XP Home, be careful! Install this newly updated version at your own risk. If it works for you, fantastic. If not, stick to 6 until FS can get their *** together. What's interesting is I have friends using XP Pro and the update works flawlessly, so go figure. Anyways, there's the report. I've only rebooted this computer about 5 times now, and I've finally got everything working again, so I'm really just thinking I'll stick with 6.0 for now. Thanks guys The rather frazzled Chris -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx