Messenger Not Working In Vista

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?

[doon]

Greetings,

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

Yes I have similar problem...new Dell Laptop, Windows Vista, Office 2007 etc
etc every time I try & sign in I get so far .....I log in see all contacts
and then Vista closes live messenger with message window stating "Windows
Live Messenger Has Stopped Working"

"Windows Live Messenger Has Stopped Working" is the same message I am getting
annoying now, have microsoft acknowledged the problem?

I have a new pc with vista on it. Messenger has installed, but we can't sign
in unless I right click on the program and "run as administrator". Any other
time, windows closes it with the Data Execution Prevention progam. When I go
into settings, it won't allow me to deactivate DEP for that
program........any suggestions???

Well, Apparently the problem is with the latest version of Messenger and not
older versions. If you download Live Messenger 8.0 it works find no DEP error
or any kind of error. You can download Live Messenger 8.0 from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

Although it is not the latest version but its better then not using one at
all. Hopefully Microsoft will find a solution soon.

In an attempt to bring chaos to disorder, Shamus wrote

Try updating to updating to the latest Flash.

If microsoft was doing there job we would not be having this problem. We all
need to write microsoft and ask them to do there job and come up with a
update to fix it. I am having same problem with vista home premium and
window's live messenger. Microsoft has wrong answers for everything.It look's
like microsoft has your money and didn't care. microsoft to get Bill Gates
back so he can clean house then get people who cares.

the samething I have wrong Acer. Microsoft didn't care if you can't use
window's live messenger. Acer pass's the buck.I did evrything Microsoft said
to do and stall didn't work.SO WHO CARE MICROSOFT AND ACER DIDN'T CARE THAT
IS WHY WE GET A RUN AROUND

Download trillian, you have msn and it acctually works.

[nicole snijder]

the problem i am recieving is similar to all these problems... but here is the specifications to the error:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: msnmsgr.exe
Application Version: 14.0.8089.726
Application Timestamp: 4a6ce533
Fault Module Name: kernel32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16820
Fault Module Timestamp: 49952034
Exception Offset: 00001890
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 3440
Additional Information 2: 83dc23140f37500384f3aea0b53b54d4
Additional Information 3: 3440
Additional Information 4: 83dc23140f37500384f3aea0b53b54d4

what could be the problem here and how can i fix this?