Re: MSN question with JFW

  • From: "Shannon" <spollo50@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:47:42 -0500

What OS are you running? Thanks for the suggestion.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "curmudgeon" <one2three4five6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: MSN question with JFW


> on my machine
> msn 6.2 still works,
>  but on other machines i help manage it does not,and no matter what i did,
> it wanted 7.0 messenger
> which they made pretty for those who can see it
> with lots of buttons,
> so,
> on two of them  and my own,
> i installed windows messenger,  5.1
> as a alternative to, msn messenger
> which was a royal pain in the blank,
> to get from windows update
> because they want you to authenticate your computer to them
> and i didn't feell like digging up my serial number to them
> they do, allow you to down load without authenticating windows messenger
5.1
> which i did,
> and am able to switch between them
> windows messenger is similar enough to msn messenger
> the main difference that  i see is that windows messenger does not have a
> link to my email on the main page and have to use the file menu to go from
> messenger to my email
> some thing to think about anyway
>
>
> les the curmudgeon
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shannon" <spollo50@xxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 9:17 AM
> Subject: MSN question with JFW
>
>
> I just joined the list and have a question concerning MSN with JFW.  To
make
> a long story short, I lost my MSN, which was 6.0 instant messenger.  So,
> thought I would just reinstall it.  Well, couldn't do it because received
a
> message stating had to install the newer version to continue.  Couldn't
find
> a cancel button or any way to get around it.  When I chose no, didn't want
> to install the sing in window appeared so thought maybe it would work.
> However, when I tried to sign into MSN instant messenger was brought right
> back to the upgrade to 7.2 which I eventually tried and found couldn't
work
> well at all with JFW version 5.  Is there a way to either back down to a
> prior version of MSN or make MSN 7.2 work or am I out of luck until JFW
> makes it work from their end.  Any help would be appreciated and I
apologize
> for the length of this message.
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