i am having the exact same problem when i sign in, it loads my contact list
then this message appears
"The application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found.
Reinstalling this application may fix this problem" anyone no a way around
it??


adam

"Owen" wrote:

I am having the exact same problem

"Shamus" wrote:

I can sign in but about 5 seconds later it crashes. I think it may have
something to do with Flash as mentioned in an earlier post.

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote in message
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Greetings,

Did you ever manage to sign in, or has it never worked?

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"Shamus" wrote in message
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I installed the latest version of Messenger and upon loading it crashes,
here are the details:

Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: msnmsgr.exe
Application Version: 8.1.178.0
Application Timestamp: 45b12d6a
Fault Module Name: unknown
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 087c6330
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 3081

Additional information about the problem:
LCID: 1033

Any ideas what it causing this?