Ken
May 15th 03, 12:59 PM
You guys are psychic.
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings Will,
>
>Do you have Norton Antivirus 2003 installed? Norton
added a new "instant messaging scanning"
>feature to Norton Antivirus 2003, which can conflict
with Messenger and display this
>behavior. To stop it, open Norton Antivirus (Right-
click on the Norton Antivirus icon in the
>System Tray/Notification Area (by the clock),
choose 'Open Norton Antivirus'), click Options,
>then Instant Messenger then uncheck MSN Instant
Messenger and click OK.
>____________________________________________
>Jonathan Kay
>Windows MVP, Messenger
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
>"will landymore" > wrote in
message
...
>> I try to get out of messanger sometimes after it starts
>> up when Windows XP pro starts but it will give me the
>> message:
>> "There are other applications using features...You must
>> close these other applications before you can exit
>> messanger"
>> However, I seem to have everything (that I know of)
>> closed that Messanger might use.
>> Can anyone tell me how to get this turned off normally
>> without disabling any features??
>
>
>.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings Will,
>
>Do you have Norton Antivirus 2003 installed? Norton
added a new "instant messaging scanning"
>feature to Norton Antivirus 2003, which can conflict
with Messenger and display this
>behavior. To stop it, open Norton Antivirus (Right-
click on the Norton Antivirus icon in the
>System Tray/Notification Area (by the clock),
choose 'Open Norton Antivirus'), click Options,
>then Instant Messenger then uncheck MSN Instant
Messenger and click OK.
>____________________________________________
>Jonathan Kay
>Windows MVP, Messenger
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
>"will landymore" > wrote in
message
...
>> I try to get out of messanger sometimes after it starts
>> up when Windows XP pro starts but it will give me the
>> message:
>> "There are other applications using features...You must
>> close these other applications before you can exit
>> messanger"
>> However, I seem to have everything (that I know of)
>> closed that Messanger might use.
>> Can anyone tell me how to get this turned off normally
>> without disabling any features??
>
>
>.
>