Hi,
Personally I hate acer, sorry if you like them and all the other people that like them too. We have never had so many problems with a PC until we got an acer computer. One of the programs that never worked with my PC is MSN messenger.
I had numerous problems with acer so many I can't list them all.
Also I did have a discussion with the techs at my old school about 2 months ago and they hated acer too.
Maybe its not acer with your computer though. I have heard that many people where forced to move to MSN Messenger 8.1 by Microsoft and they have many complaints with connectivity issues and other issues regarding with this version. Microsoft are planning to hopefully bring out a new version of MSN soon to repair these bugs.
I made MSN work with Acer by updating my computer with acer patches and updates. However the personal message always seem to delete itself every time I log on, and my time and date on my computer messes up which results in giving me an error message on bootup stating that time is incorrect.
With yahoo, I don't know how to resolve this issue since I haven't got it and never used it. However I know that I also had a few microphone issues with MSN using acer as well. Maybe you can't use the microphone or web cam because its acer stopping you?
I have a Toshiba laptop now and the problems have gone, but I am sorry but I am never going to buy acer computers any more.
Sorry I haven't been much help.
Hope you get the problem fixed soon.
Will
We Bought this new computer preloaded with vista. It is manufactured by acer.
Well as usuall when you get a new computer you need to install and download all the things you want. One of them is MSN Messenger. I downloaded it then I instlled it. I tried to run it, now thats the problem. As soon as I run Messenger I get the message, "Messenger Has stopped working". It sends informatoion to Microsoft then I get a message telling me to download an update for Acer e-management. I ignored this message and downloaded Messenger 8.0 instead of 8.1.
A few months later I recieved a message when i tried to sign in that to continue I had to download the newer version of messenger. I downloaded, instaled. I found out that it was 8.1. Same problem when running it as before.
I went back to the acer update I was meant to download before. I thought "oh stuff it I can't be bothered to download it". I went over to yahoo messenger. The only problem with that is I can not use video calls or just plain voice calls with my MSN friends. Now I need a solution.
Either I find a way to use my microphone and webcam with messenger users or find a way to fix the messenger problems. The messenger problem has something to do with DEP (Data Execution Protection). I went into Advanced System settings and tried to disable it for Messenger but it said it mut be turned on for this program.
Help Please, Thnx

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