MSN Messenger 6.0 and online games

[Dave]

Hi

My family and friends downloaded MSN Messenger 6.0 from the Microsoft
website (SetupDl @ 4.65MB) and after installation, we choose a 'buddy' and
then click on the "Launch site" to choose a game but I get a message in
'red' saying "No application information available".

Surely the online games should be working in the Public Preview? Anyone got
any idea why this won't work?

Dave

[Edward Chow]

Hi Dave,

In the pre-official version, you had to have a US MSN Passport to play the
games. Looks like that it still is that way. There is a way around it
though- you can "poison" the datafile that tells MSN what country you're in.
I'm assuming you use Win2000 or better.
Open with notepad:
X:\Documents and Settings\<Your username>\Application Data\Microsoft\MSN
Messenger\<your email>\configcache.xml

Look for this line:
http://appdirectory.messenger.msn-int.com/AppDirectory/Directory.aspx?L=en-<two
letter code for your country>

and change this to:

http://appdirectory.messenger.msn-int.com/AppDirectory/Directory.aspx?L=en-us

Save the file and restart Messenger.

Now your games will work.

--
Edward Chow
Microsoft Partner
LX Technologies
E-mail:

BetaID: 527771
Office System 2003 Beta 2
Windows Messenger 5 Beta 1+2
MSN Messenger 6 Beta
"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
>
> My family and friends downloaded MSN Messenger 6.0 from the Microsoft
> website (SetupDl @ 4.65MB) and after installation, we choose a 'buddy' and
> then click on the "Launch site" to choose a game but I get a message in
> 'red' saying "No application information available".
>
> Surely the online games should be working in the Public Preview? Anyone
got
> any idea why this won't work?
>
> Dave
>

[Jono]

The configcache.xml file seems to reside not in <your email> folder but in a
folder called <1410206491>

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\MSN
Messenger\1410206491

Got it working using your suggested "poison".

Thank you Edward.

Jono.



Edward Chow wrote:
|| Hi Dave,
||
|| In the pre-official version, you had to have a US MSN Passport to
|| play the games. Looks like that it still is that way. There is a way
|| around it
|| though- you can "poison" the datafile that tells MSN what country
|| you're in. I'm assuming you use Win2000 or better.
|| Open with notepad:
|| X:\Documents and Settings\<Your username>\Application
|| Data\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\<your email>\configcache.xml
||
|| Look for this line:
||
http://appdirectory.messenger.msn-int.com/AppDirectory/Directory.aspx?L=en-<two
|| letter code for your country>
||
|| and change this to:
||
||
http://appdirectory.messenger.msn-int.com/AppDirectory/Directory.aspx?L=en-us
||
|| Save the file and restart Messenger.
||
|| Now your games will work.
||
|| --
|| Edward Chow
|| Microsoft Partner
|| LX Technologies
|| E-mail:
||
|| BetaID: 527771
|| Office System 2003 Beta 2
|| Windows Messenger 5 Beta 1+2
|| MSN Messenger 6 Beta
|| "Dave" > wrote in message
|| ...
||| Hi
|||
||| My family and friends downloaded MSN Messenger 6.0 from the
||| Microsoft website (SetupDl @ 4.65MB) and after installation, we
||| choose a 'buddy' and then click on the "Launch site" to choose a
||| game but I get a message in 'red' saying "No application
||| information available".
|||
||| Surely the online games should be working in the Public Preview?
||| Anyone
|| got
||| any idea why this won't work?
|||
||| Dave

[Edward Chow]

LOL :)

--
Edward Chow
Microsoft Partner
LX Technologies
E-mail:

BetaID: 527771
Office System 2003 Beta 2
Windows Messenger 5 Beta 1+2
MSN Messenger 6 Beta
"Jono" <nosmap@nospam> wrote in message
...
> The configcache.xml file seems to reside not in <your email> folder but in
a
> folder called <1410206491>
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\MSN
> Messenger\1410206491
>
> Got it working using your suggested "poison".
>
> Thank you Edward.
>
> Jono.
>
>
>
> Edward Chow wrote:
> || Hi Dave,
> ||
> || In the pre-official version, you had to have a US MSN Passport to
> || play the games. Looks like that it still is that way. There is a way
> || around it
> || though- you can "poison" the datafile that tells MSN what country
> || you're in. I'm assuming you use Win2000 or better.
> || Open with notepad:
> || X:\Documents and Settings\<Your username>\Application
> || Data\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\<your email>\configcache.xml
> ||
> || Look for this line:
> ||
>
http://appdirectory.messenger.msn-int.com/AppDirectory/Directory.aspx?L=en-<two
> || letter code for your country>
> ||
> || and change this to:
> ||
> ||
>
http://appdirectory.messenger.msn-int.com/AppDirectory/Directory.aspx?L=en-us
> ||
> || Save the file and restart Messenger.
> ||
> || Now your games will work.
> ||
> || --
> || Edward Chow
> || Microsoft Partner
> || LX Technologies
> || E-mail:
> ||
> || BetaID: 527771
> || Office System 2003 Beta 2
> || Windows Messenger 5 Beta 1+2
> || MSN Messenger 6 Beta
> || "Dave" > wrote in message
> || ...
> ||| Hi
> |||
> ||| My family and friends downloaded MSN Messenger 6.0 from the
> ||| Microsoft website (SetupDl @ 4.65MB) and after installation, we
> ||| choose a 'buddy' and then click on the "Launch site" to choose a
> ||| game but I get a message in 'red' saying "No application
> ||| information available".
> |||
> ||| Surely the online games should be working in the Public Preview?
> ||| Anyone
> || got
> ||| any idea why this won't work?
> |||
> ||| Dave
>
>

[Jono]

?

Edward Chow wrote:
|| LOL :)
||
|| --
|| Edward Chow
|| Microsoft Partner
|| LX Technologies
|| E-mail:
||
|| BetaID: 527771
|| Office System 2003 Beta 2
|| Windows Messenger 5 Beta 1+2
|| MSN Messenger 6 Beta
|| "Jono" <nosmap@nospam> wrote in message
|| ...
||| The configcache.xml file seems to reside not in <your email> folder
||| but in
|| a
||| folder called <1410206491>
|||
||| C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\MSN
||| Messenger\1410206491
|||
||| Got it working using your suggested "poison".
|||
||| Thank you Edward.
|||
||| Jono.
|||
|||
|||
||| Edward Chow wrote:
||||| Hi Dave,
|||||
||||| In the pre-official version, you had to have a US MSN Passport to
||||| play the games. Looks like that it still is that way. There is a
||||| way around it
||||| though- you can "poison" the datafile that tells MSN what country
||||| you're in. I'm assuming you use Win2000 or better.
||||| Open with notepad:
||||| X:\Documents and Settings\<Your username>\Application
||||| Data\Microsoft\MSN Messenger\<your email>\configcache.xml
|||||
||||| Look for this line:
|||||
|||
||
http://appdirectory.messenger.msn-int.com/AppDirectory/Directory.aspx?L=en-<two
||||| letter code for your country>
|||||
||||| and change this to:
|||||
|||||
|||
||
http://appdirectory.messenger.msn-int.com/AppDirectory/Directory.aspx?L=en-us
|||||
||||| Save the file and restart Messenger.
|||||
||||| Now your games will work.
|||||
||||| --
||||| Edward Chow
||||| Microsoft Partner
||||| LX Technologies
||||| E-mail:
|||||
||||| BetaID: 527771
||||| Office System 2003 Beta 2
||||| Windows Messenger 5 Beta 1+2
||||| MSN Messenger 6 Beta
||||| "Dave" > wrote in message
||||| ...
|||||| Hi
||||||
|||||| My family and friends downloaded MSN Messenger 6.0 from the
|||||| Microsoft website (SetupDl @ 4.65MB) and after installation, we
|||||| choose a 'buddy' and then click on the "Launch site" to choose a
|||||| game but I get a message in 'red' saying "No application
|||||| information available".
||||||
|||||| Surely the online games should be working in the Public Preview?
|||||| Anyone
||||| got
|||||| any idea why this won't work?
||||||
|||||| Dave

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Every passport uses different number.
Not all are <1410206491>

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Are you come from UK?